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Description	This detailed artist’s impression shows the structure of the Milky Way, including the location of the spiral arms and other components such as the bulge. This version of the image has been updated to include the most recent mapping of the shape of the central bulge deduced from survey data from ESO’s VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory.
Date	12 September 2013, 12:00:00
Source	http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1339g/
Author	NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESO/R. Hurt
Other versions	2005 2008 2010 Annotated

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Source	European Southern Observatory
Credit/Provider	NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESO/R. Hurt
Usage terms	Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
Image title	This detailed artist’s impression shows the structure of the Milky Way, including the location of the spiral arms and other components such as the bulge. This version of the image has been updated to include the most recent mapping of the shape of the central bulge deduced from survey data from ESO’s VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory.
Short title	Artist's impression of the Milky Way
Date and time of data generation	12:00, 12 September 2013
Copyright status	Copyright status not set
Contact information	http://www.eso.org/ Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Garching bei München, , D-85748 Germany

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