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Southern Milky Way

by

David Malin Images/Novapix

Reference

a-vlc01-00020

Date

2006-11-02

This is a long exposure (about an hour) made with an ordinary camera and colour film. It shows a crowded and dusty stretch of the southern Milky Way. The Galactic plane runs roughly NE to SW across the middle of the picture, which is about 40 degrees across. At the centre-left lies the direction of the nucleus of our Galaxy, unseen behind dense clouds of dust.