Monday, 23 September 2013

This is roughly the view of our neighboring brightest galaxies if you were 20 million light years away from ‘home’...


This is roughly the view of our neighboring brightest galaxies if you were 20 million light years away from ‘home’ (red dot). A closer view reveals the closest neighbors as well. In a very small distance there are two galaxies surrounding the Milky Way, the Large and the Small Mangelanic Clouds.

Credit of the 3D map: iomikron
Data collected from atlasoftheuniverse.

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