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^ That was supposedly taken while the photographer was making love to his gf....lucky git

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A billion stars in one image.

The image shows the plane of the Milky Way galaxy, which is often described as looking like two fried eggs back-to-back, with a flat disc in the middle. Earth is close to the edge of this disc, and the image shows a cross-section through the disc as seen from Earth's perspective.

It combines data from the UKIDSS/GPS sky survey taken by the UK Infrared Telescope in Hawaii with the VVV survey from the VISTA telescope in Chile.

Astronomers used infra-red radiation instead of visible light to enable them to see through much of the dust in the Milky Way and record details of the centre of the galaxy.
 
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I'm sure it is but even so you'd think they'd have checked and if they'd checked you'd assume they'd come to the conclusion it was already a well used name with lets say.. slightly unfashionable... references.

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