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Old 06-09-2014, 07:04 PM   #2096
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Originally Posted by Red Slinger View Post
This may be a dumb question but how do we get pictures of the Milky Way galaxy when we're in it? There hasn't been a probe that's left the galaxy (as far as I know). Or are the 'pictures' of the Milky Way either graphics or pictures of other similar galaxies?
I am assuming they know the relative distances of a majority of the stars in the neighbourhood and are able to extrapolate from there.
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