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	The Milky Road

book-mole

10-25-2007 12:37 PM

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10-25-2007 1:05 PM

ColoradoRight

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<B> The Milky Road </B> 
<B> Credit & <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply">Copyright</A>: </B>
<A href="http://www.landolfiphoto.com/Site_2/ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY.html">Larry
Landolfi</A>
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<B> Explanation: </B>
Inspired during a visit to Fort Davis, Texas, home of
<A href="http://mcdonaldobservatory.org/">McDonald Observatory</A>
and dark night skies,
photographer Larry Landolfi created this tantalizing
<A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060413.html">fantasy</A> view.
The <A href="http://www.landolfiphoto.com/
Site_2/-Composited_Astrophotos-.html">composited</A>
image suggests the Milky Way is a heavenly
extension of a deserted country road.
Of course, the
<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_names_for_the_Milky_Way">name</A> for our galaxy, the
<A href="http://seds.org/messier/more/mw.html">Milky Way</A>
(in Latin, Via Lactea), does refer to its appearance
as a milky band or path in the sky.
In fact, the word galaxy itself derives from the Greek for
milk.
Visible on
<A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040923.html">moonless nights</A>
from <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070508.html">dark sky</A> areas,
though not so colorful as in this image, the glowing
<A href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast01nov_1.htm">celestial
band</A> is due to the collective light of myriad stars along the plane
of our galaxy, too faint to be distinguished individually.
The diffuse starlight is cut by dark swaths of
obscuring galactic dust clouds.
At the beginning of the 17th century, Galileo turned his
telescope on the Milky Way and announced it to be composed of
<A href="http://joeorman.shutterace.com/Articles/Article5.html">innumerable
stars</A>.
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