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  2. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Milky Way 2005

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    Our Milky Way galaxy may appear to be very different from an ordinary spiral galaxy." Procrastinator-General Our Milky Way galaxy may appear to be very different from an ordinary spiral galaxy - that seems to go a bit against the cosmological principle - of course the Milky Way looks different to us, were inside it, with no hope of getting a ...

  3. Milky Way - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Mesoamerican world tree - Wikipedia

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    The central world tree has also been interpreted as a representation of the band of the Milky Way. [7] While the cosmic tree symbolism has deep roots in Mesoamerican cultures, [8] the precise botanical identification and underlying meaning of the motif remain poorly understood. Attempts have been made to identify the tree as a kapok, maize, or ...

  5. Horsehead Nebula - Wikipedia

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    The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33 or B33) is a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion. [2] The nebula is located just to the south of Alnitak, the easternmost star of Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion molecular cloud complex.

  6. Dark Horse (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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    The Dark Horse Nebula or Great Dark Horse (sometimes called the Prancing Horse) is a large dark nebula that, from Earth's perspective, obscures part of the upper central bulge of the Milky Way. The Dark Horse lies in the equatorial constellation Ophiuchus (the Serpent Bearer), near its borders with the more famous constellations Scorpius and ...

  7. Maya astronomy - Wikipedia

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    Maya astronomy is the study of the Moon, planets, Milky Way, Sun, and astronomical phenomena by the Precolumbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica.The Classic Maya in particular developed some of the most accurate pre-telescope astronomy in the world, aided by their fully developed writing system and their positional numeral system, both of which are fully indigenous to Mesoamerica.

  8. Jon Lomberg - Wikipedia

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    Lomberg's Milky Way portrait as background for Kepler Mission diagram. The Smithsonian Institution commissioned Lomberg in the early 1990s to paint "A Portrait of the Milky Way" , a scientifically accurate artistic representation of the Milky Way galaxy as seen by a hypothetical observer from a vantage point 10 degrees above the galactic plane ...

  9. Aquila (constellation) - Wikipedia

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    In the Chinese love story of Qi Xi, Niu Lang and his two children (β and γ Aquilae) are separated forever from their wife and mother Zhi Nu , who is on the far side of the river, the Milky Way. [49] In Hinduism, the constellation Aquila is identified with the half-eagle half-human deity Garuda. [50] [51]