File:Milky Way and Our Location (4186-Image).png

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English: 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.
Date 7 August 2017 (upload date)
Source Milky Way and Our Location
Author NASA/Adler/U. Chicago/Wesleyan/JPL-Caltech

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The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-03127. Copyright statement at webbtelescope.org.
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