GAIA takes “unusual” picture of the Milky Way – Televisa News

PARIS, France, July 3rd 2015.- The image, in which. neighboring galaxies known as the Magellanic Clouds, shows the silhouette of the Milky Way in profile, so that the brightest regions of instant indicate a higher concentration of stars also appear.

“The darker regions correspond to dense interstellar clouds of gas and dust which absorb starlight to stand in the line of sight, “said ESA.

It is what is known as” galactic plane “, ie, the “projection on the sky of the galactic disk, a flattened structure of about 100 000 light years in diameter and a thickness of only 1,000 light-years,” the European Space Agency.

Beyond the plane are only visible a few objects, especially the Magellanic Clouds -Big and small- and two dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, in the bottom right of the image.

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