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	"The Milky Road"

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6-15-2009 9:38 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/938c4902-9a6d-4e55-8a81-f04e7fb43283/68D0B317-46AF-4940-AEA3-776F055C2112/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090613.html" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090613.html" style="font-size: 11px;">antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090613.html"><H1> Astronomy Picture of the Day </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090613.html"><P>
<A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html">Discover the cosmos!</A>
Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is 
featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 
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Inspired by the night skies of planet Earth
in the <A href="http://www.iya2009.org/">International
Year of Astronomy</A>,
photographer Larry Landolfi created this
<A href="http://www.landolfiphoto.com/Site_2/SURREAL_FUN_.html">tantalizing
fantasy</A> view.
The <A href="http://www.landolfiphoto.com/Site_2/
-Composited_Astrophotos-.html">composited image</A>
suggests a luminous Milky Way is the heavenly extension of a 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 bright or 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
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