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River of Stars (with planets), Lorand Fenyes

River of Stars (with planets)

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River of Stars (with planets), Lorand Fenyes

River of Stars (with planets)

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The Milky Way galaxy is made up of stars, planets, clouds of gas, and a zoo of other objects and features. In this image the seemingly flowing river of stars shows the plethora of beauty it has to offer.

As we are looking towards the very centre of our own Milky Way galaxy not only the countless nebulae inhabiting it are visible, in the lower left part also visible are the planets Mars (bright orange) and Saturn (right of Mars).

All this beauty combined is impressively massive: the Milky Way galaxy is between 400 billion and 780 billion times the mass of our Sun.

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River of Stars (with planets), Lorand Fenyes