Anatomy of the Milky Way (IMAGE)

European Space Agency

Anatomy of the Milky Way

Caption

An artist’s impression showing the anatomy of our Milky Way galaxy, a roughly 13 billon-year-old ‘barred spiral galaxy’ that is home to a few hundred billion stars.

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2016/09/Anatomy_of_the_Milky_Way

Credit

ESA/Gaia/DPAC, S. Payne-Wardenaar

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License

CC BY-SA

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