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- The Milky Way appears as a faint cloud of stars to the unaided eye.
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- The center of the Milky Way, as viewed with a long exposure photograph.
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- A picture showing the Milky Way galaxy across the entire sky.
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- An open star cluster – these can be used to trace out the basic structure of the Milky Way.
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- An artist’s view (based on star cluster data) of what the Milky Way galaxy looks like from above.