Milky Way Stars (IMAGE)

Royal Astronomical Society

Milky Way Stars

Caption

This is one of the three boxes studied, showing a superposition of almost 3 million stars belonging to different Milky Way structures along the line of sight: the Milky Way disk, as well as the stars belonging to the bulge region.

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ESO/M. Rejkuba/F. Surot Madrid/E. Valenti

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