Mostly Mute Monday: The Galactic Plane (Synopsis) [Starts With A Bang]

“The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.” -Galileo Galilei

It is, in fact, almost exactly as Galileo said.

Image credit: ESO / S. Brunier, from the Gigagalaxyzoom project.

Galileo missed a few things, though, including a plethora of unclustered stars, dust, nebulae and star-forming regions as well.

Image credit: ESO / Stephane Guisard / S. Brunier, via http://ift.tt/1BUXsWg.

Want to view it all at once? Check out today’s Mostly Mute Monday!

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“The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.” -Galileo Galilei

It is, in fact, almost exactly as Galileo said.

Image credit: ESO / S. Brunier, from the Gigagalaxyzoom project.

Galileo missed a few things, though, including a plethora of unclustered stars, dust, nebulae and star-forming regions as well.

Image credit: ESO / Stephane Guisard / S. Brunier, via http://ift.tt/1BUXsWg.

Want to view it all at once? Check out today’s Mostly Mute Monday!

from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1BUXsWh