This panorama takes in a roughly 180° sweep of the Milky Way: — from Sagittarius, Scorpius and the Galactic Centre at left, — to Orion, Gemini and nea
This panorama takes in a roughly 180° sweep of the Milky Way: — from Sagittarius, Scorpius and the Galactic Centre at left, — to Orion, Gemini and near the galactic anti-centre at right. At far left we are looking toward the centre of our galaxy; at far right we are looking toward its outer edge, from our location in one of the outer spiral arms of the Milky Way, in a spur off the Cygnus Arm. At centre we are looking into the adjacent Carina and Centaurus arms. The panorama frames the full extent of southernmost reaches of the Milky Way that can be seen only from, or best from, southern latitudes, in the tropics or the southern hemisphere. The southern extent of the Milky Way includes the constellations of (from L to R) Lupus, Centaurus, Crux, Carina, Vela and Puppis across the central area of the panorama, a region rich in red emission nebulas and dark lanes of interstellar dust. The largest nebula is the vast pink Gum Nebula in Vela and Puppis near centre, a huge bubble of glowing hydrogen similar to the arc of Barnard's Loop around Orion at right. But the Milky Way is dotted with many other bright emission nebulas, such as (from L to R): the Lagoon, Cat's Paw (both at far left), the Running Chicken, Eta Carinae (both near centre), the Seagull, the Rosette (both at far right), and the Angel Fish in the head of Orion. At top left are the stars of the head of Scorpius and the colourful nebulas around Antares and Rho Ophiuchi. The dark dust lanes at left make up the aboriginal Dark Emu constellation, with her head being the Coal Sack near the Southern Cross left of centre, and her neck being the curving lane of dust that splits the Milky Way in Centaurus at left. At far left are the angled lanes that make up the Dark Horse in the Milky Way. Of note are the various colours of the Milky Way, varying from blue (at right) to, to redder (at centre), to yellow (at left), the latter from absorption of short wavelengths by the greater amount of dust toward
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