Photograph the Milky Way
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The Milky Way represents the plane of our home Galaxy. Its diffuse glow is caused by the light of billions of stars too distant to be seen individually with the naked eye. As our Galaxy is shaped like two fried eggs back-to-back, and the Sun sits within the ‘whites’, two-thirds of the way from the centre, the mistiness appears like a path in the sky; the plane where all the stars are found.
The path isn’t uniform,
