Great Rift Near the Center of the Milky Way
Image Credit & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo (Deep Sky Colors)
Explanation: Over 100 telescopic image panels in this stunning vertical mosaic span about 50 degrees
across the night sky. They follow part of the
Great Rift, the
dark river of dust and molecular gas that stretches along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. Start at top center and you can follow the
galactic equator down through brighter stars in constellations Aquila, Serpens Cauda, and Scutum. At the bottom is Sagittarius near the center of the Milky Way. Along the way you'll encounter many obscuring
dark nebulae hundreds of light-years distant flanked by bands of Milky Way starlight, and the telltale reddish glow of starforming regions. Notable
Messier objects include The Eagle (M16) and Omega (M17) nebulae, the Sagittarius Star Cloud (M24), the beautiful Trifid (M20) and the deep Lagoon (M8).
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