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MILKY WAY26,000 light-years The most inspiring naked-eye object in the sky is our own galaxy, the Milky Way. This mosaic of photographs taken in Germany and Namibia shows some of the billions of stars that make up our neighbourhood, along with reddish clouds of hydrogen gas and a dark obscuring lane of interstellar dust. Credit: Image made in visible light by Eckhard Slawik. |