Milky Way and Our Location

 Milky Way and Our Location

Graphic view of our Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way Galaxy is organized into spiral arms of giant stars that illuminate interstellar gas and dust. The Sun is in a finger called the Orion Spur. Overlaid is a graphic of galactic longitude in relation to our Sun.

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NASA-JPL, Caltech, ESO, Robert L. Hurt