“The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.” -Galileo Galilei
It is, in fact, almost exactly as Galileo said.
Image credit: ESO / S. Brunier, from the Gigagalaxyzoom project.
Galileo missed a few things, though, including a plethora of unclustered stars, dust, nebulae and star-forming regions as well.
Image credit: ESO / Stephane Guisard / S. Brunier, via http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0936b/.
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