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commanderspock: justinmaller The planets in our solar system, to scale.

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The planets in our solar system, to scale.

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This simulation shows the future behaviour of a gas cloud that has been observed approaching the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. This is the first time ever that the approach of such a doomed cloud to a supermassive black hole has been observed and it is expected to break up completely during 2013.

This simulation shows the future behaviour of a gas cloud that has been observed approaching the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. This is the first time ever that the approach of such a doomed cloud to a supermassive black hole has been observed and it is expected to break up completely during 2013.

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commanderspock: cwnl All-Sky Milky Way Copyright: processing Lorenzo Comolli, images Lorenzo Comolli, Luigi Fontana, Giosuè Ghioldi, Emmanuele Sordini This single image is able to show the entire sky, thanks to the truly dark sky of the Namibian savanna and to the absence of mountains. Only some small trees from the Tivoli farm are visible toward West.

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All-Sky Milky Way

Copyright: processing Lorenzo Comolli, images Lorenzo Comolli, Luigi Fontana, Giosuè Ghioldi, Emmanuele Sordini

This single image is able to show the entire sky, thanks to the truly dark sky of the Namibian savanna and to the absence of mountains. Only some small trees from the Tivoli farm are visible toward West.