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English: Map of the Milky Way Galaxy with the constellations that cross the galactic plane in each direction and the known most prominent components annotated including main arms, spurs, bar, nucleus/bulge, and notable nebulae.
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Captions

Map of the Milky Way Galaxy

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

Milky Way

galaxy

Perseus

Perseus Arm

Carina–Sagittarius Arm

Norma Arm

Galactic bar: normal mode of the stellar disk or a superposition of transient spirals?

barred spiral galaxy

spiral galaxy

Orion Nebula

Pleiades

Solar System

Sun

galactic plane

creator

some value

Wikimedia username: Unmismoobjetivo
author name string: Pablo Carlos Budassi

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copyright license

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inception

26 March 2021

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current16:50, 25 June 2021Thumbnail for version as of 16:50, 25 June 20212,048 × 2,238 (5.45 MB)UnmismoobjetivoChanged background image
23:52, 11 June 2021Thumbnail for version as of 23:52, 11 June 20212,048 × 2,238 (5.7 MB)UnmismoobjetivoAdded globular clusters and scale key
02:41, 4 June 2021Thumbnail for version as of 02:41, 4 June 20212,048 × 2,160 (5.51 MB)UnmismoobjetivoVarious improvements
08:36, 27 May 2021Thumbnail for version as of 08:36, 27 May 20212,048 × 2,160 (5.1 MB)Unmismoobjetivoadded side view scheme
07:56, 19 May 2021Thumbnail for version as of 07:56, 19 May 20212,048 × 2,160 (5.25 MB)Unmismoobjetivorotated 180 deg. / removed title
03:27, 26 March 2021Thumbnail for version as of 03:27, 26 March 20212,048 × 2,048 (5.05 MB)UnmismoobjetivoUploaded own work with UploadWizard

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