What a view! It's late summer, after dark, and you're flat on your back in a sleeping bag watching the camp fire's last embers drift up to the heavens. Overhead a magnificent band of stars divides the nightit's the Milky Way.
The Milky Way above a country road in Texas.
Credit: Larry Landolfi of Rochester, New Hampshire.
Now, imagine that scene doubled in brightness and beauty.
No, that's not quite right.
Imagine an entire galaxy of stars spinning overhead. The galaxy's blue-white core of young stars is surrounded by yellow octopus-arms of older siblings. Off to one side a faint red column of gas meanders away from the starry whirlpool and turns in mid-sky toward you.
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