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Summer Triangle with Milky Way Dust Lane

This is the a portion of the Milky Way, a section of our home galaxy, that can be seen at the zenith in mid-summer around midnight. The diffuse whiteness are millions of stars in one of the spiral arms of our galaxy. The dark areas are clouds of interstellar dust and gas along the plane of the galaxy between spiral arms. It obscures a multitude of stars behind it.

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Uploaded on August 6, 2008
Taken on July 6, 2008