NASA Shares Breathtaking Image Of Our Milky Way Galaxy Captured From The International Space Station! – Mashable India

NASA just shared a breathtaking image of a milky way galaxy captured from the International Space Station (ISS) on its official Instagram page. Ever since its posting, the image has received over 9 lakh likes and 3000 comments.

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The caption for the image that has left netizens completely awestruck states, Our next photo needs no introduction. We could stare for hours. Shown here, we see our Milky Way galaxy captured from the International Space Station (@ISS) from the @SpaceX Crew Dragons eye by @JAXAJP astronaut Soichi Noguchi. The luminous horizon of the Earth dominates the image along with thousands of brilliant specks of stars. Check it out:

NASA also highlighted an exciting fact about the stars, stating that they are arranged in "a pinwheel pattern with four major arms", and we live in one of them, about two-thirds of the way outward from the centre of the Milky Way. In fact, our Solar System is located at about 25,000 light-years away from the centre of our galaxy, meaning that we live in the suburbs of our galaxy! How cool! Also, it takes 250 million years for our Sun and the solar system to go all the way around the centre of the Milky Way.

For the uninitiated, A large group of stars, gas, and dust bound together by gravity is referred to as a galaxy. All the stars that you can spot in the bright sky are in our milky way galaxy, explains NASA. The sun and all the planets around it are considered part of a galaxy known as the Milky Way Galaxy.

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Now, in case youre wondering why our galaxy is called the Milky Way galaxy, thats because it can be seen as a milky band of light in the sky when you observe it in a really dark area.

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NASA Shares Breathtaking Image Of Our Milky Way Galaxy Captured From The International Space Station! - Mashable India