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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	10:09, 15 October 2012	6,000 × 3,000 (7.23 MB)	Stas1995
	10:08, 15 October 2012	4,000 × 2,000 (4.27 MB)	Stas1995
	16:09, 24 February 2010	6,000 × 3,000 (7.23 MB)	Luiscalcada	{{Information \|Description={{en\|1=This magnificent 360-degree panoramic image, covering the entire southern and northern celestial sphere, reveals the cosmic landscape that surrounds our tiny blue planet. This gorgeous starscape serves as the first of thr

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Source	European Southern Observatory
Credit/Provider	ESO/S. Brunier
Short title	The Milky Way panorama
Image title	This magnificent 360-degree panoramic image, covering the entire southern and northern celestial sphere, reveals the cosmic landscape that surrounds our tiny blue planet. This gorgeous starscape serves as the first of three extremely high-resolution images featured in the GigaGalaxy Zoom project, launched by ESO within the framework of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009). The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, which we see edge-on from our perspective on Earth, cuts a luminous swath across the image. The projection used in GigaGalaxy Zoom place the viewer in front of our Galaxy with the Galactic Plane running horizontally through the image— almost as if we were looking at the Milky Way from the outside. From this vantage point, the general components of our spiral galaxy come clearly into view, including its disc, marbled with both dark and glowing nebulae, which harbours bright, young stars, as well as the Galaxy’s central bulgeand its satellite galaxies. As filming extended over several months, objects from the Solar System came and went through the star fields, with bright planets such as Venus and Jupiter. For copyright reasons, we cannot provide here the full 800-million-pixel original image, which can be requested from Serge Brunier. The high resolution image provided here contains 18 million pixels.
Usage terms	Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license
Date and time of data generation	00:00, 14 September 2009
Contact information	http://www.eso.org/ Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Garching bei München, , D-85748 Germany
Keywords	Galactic Centre

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