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English: The Milky Way over Yumi Lake, Mt.KusatsuShirane, Gunma, Japan shot on route 292 Shiga Kusatsu road. Resolution 1920x1080. Resolution 1920x1080. This video of the night sky was created with a DSLR camera's time exposure/time-lapse feature.
The Milky Way [c] is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.
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English: This image shows the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies in space to scale. It illustrates both the size of each galaxy and the distance between the two galaxies, to create a better understanding of relative sizes and distances.
This is a list of observed supernova remnants (SNRs) in the Milky Way, as well as galaxies nearby enough to resolve individual nebulae, such as the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds and the Andromeda Galaxy.
G299.2-2.9 is a supernova remnant in the Milky Way, 16,000 light years from Earth. [2] It is the remains of a Type Ia supernova . [ 3 ] The observed radius of the remnant shell translates to approximately 4,500 years of expansion, [ 4 ] making it one of the oldest observed Type Ia supernova remnants.
File:Milky Way 2005.jpg licensed with PD-USGov-NASA 2008-06-04T20:47:35Z Ashill 5600x5600 (4556578 Bytes) {{Information |Description= Like early explorers mapping the continents of our globe, astronomers are busy charting the spiral structure of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Using infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope,