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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                   2022 June 11   
      
                            The Road and the Milky Way   
                       Image Credit & Copyright: David Cruz   
      
      Explanation: At night you can follow this road as it passes through the   
      Dark Sky Alqueva reserve not too far from Alentejo, Portugal. Or you   
      could stop, look up, and follow the Milky Way through the sky. Both   
      stretch from horizon to horizon in this 180 degree panorama recorded on   
      June 3. Our galaxy's name, the Milky Way, does refer to its appearance   
      as a milky path in the sky. The word galaxy itself derives from the   
      Greek for milk. From our fair planet the arc of the Milky Way is most   
      easily visible on moonless nights from dark sky areas, though not quite   
      so bright or colorful as in this image. The glowing celestial band is   
      due to the collective light of myriad stars along the galactic plane   
      too faint to be distinguished individually. The diffuse starlight is   
      cut by dark swaths of the galaxy's obscuring interstellar dust clouds.   
      Standing above the Milky Way arc near the top of this panoramic   
      nightscape is bright star Vega, with the galaxy's central bulge near   
      the horizon at the right.   
      
                      Tomorrow's picture: pareidolia in space   
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