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'Giga Galaxy Zoom' Offers Tour of Milky Way |
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Written by A. Pawlowski - CNN
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Wednesday, 16 September 2009 |
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Article Source: CNN and GigaGalaxyZoom.org
(CNN) -- The name is already taken, but "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" might be a fitting title for a new interactive view of the Milky Way unveiled this week by the European Southern Observatory. The 800-million-pixel panorama shows an edge-on view of the plane of our galaxy, complete with points of interests such as the 12-billion-year-old, star-packed globular cluster Omega Centauri and the beautiful, reddish Rosette Nebula.
The panorama also points out familiar landmarks such as Jupiter, noting it's the third-brightest object in our night sky after the moon and Venus.
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