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Article: YOU ARE HERE! Seen here for the first time, a stunning image of our galaxy - and our minuscule place in it.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- August 17, 2005
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Byline: MICHAEL HANLON
WE ALL like to know our place in the great scheme of things, and now we do.
This extraordinary new picture, released by American scientists yesterday, shows the most accurate map to date of our cosmic neighbourhood - and our place within it.
What you are looking at is a computergenerated image of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on millions of new observations by a NASA orbiting space telescope.
It is shown as it would appear to an imaginary observer from a vantage point trillions of miles away.
Our planet, the Earth, orbits a small, yellowish star - the Sun - which in this picture is about two thirds ...