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The Milky Way Galaxy with large and small Magellanic clouds
Collage by Nina McCurdy, including Nick Risinger’s Artist’s Conception of the Milky Way Galaxy[source http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milky_Way_Galaxy.jpg ], adapted from NASA images [http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0411d/ and http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/04/image/a/warn/ of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds].