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Milky Way
The galaxy that contains our Solar System, characterized by its barred spiral structure with multiple spiral arms extending from a central bar.
Source: esa.int
APODs including "Milky Way"
Ten Billion Earths
12/01/2013
Grand Spiral Galaxy NGC 7424
08/01/2013
Open Star Clusters M35 and NGC 2158
03/01/2013
Yosemite Winter Night
25/12/2012
M33: Triangulum Galaxy
20/12/2012
When Gemini Sends Stars to Paranal
15/12/2012
Milky Way Over Quiver Tree Forest
12/12/2012
NGC 604: Giant Stellar Nursery
11/12/2012
47 Tuc Near the Small Magellanic Cloud
06/12/2012
Plasma Jets from Radio Galaxy Hercules A
05/12/2012
Clouds in Cygnus
30/11/2012
Wisps of the Veil Nebula
26/11/2012
The Pipe Nebula
23/11/2012
Night of the Long Leonid
22/11/2012
Meteor and Moonbow over Wallaman Falls
12/11/2012
The Black Hole in the Milky Way
02/11/2012
VdB 152: A Ghost in Cepheus
31/10/2012
Planetary Nebula PK 164 +31.1
30/10/2012
NGC 206 and the Star Clouds of Andromeda
24/10/2012
Zodiacal Light and Milky Way
20/10/2012
Merging NGC 2623
19/10/2012
A View from Next Door
18/10/2012
A Spiral Nebula Surrounding Star R Sculptoris
16/10/2012
Galaxies, Stars, and Dust
13/10/2012
Pan-STARRS and Nebulae
12/10/2012
Spherical Planetary Nebula Abell 39
08/10/2012
Goat Aurora Over Greenland
03/10/2012
Stars in a Dusty Sky
28/09/2012
Stars and Dust Across Corona Australis
27/09/2012
Elliptical M60, Spiral NGC 4647
14/09/2012