1.6 APOD Rania Shafie

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This photograph is taken with a telescope and is a view of the Milky Way and the constellaton of the Southern Cross. With the use of telescope, Herschel, which is ESA's new infrared observatory that is a space based telescope, the photograph captures the galaxy's dust clouds in such extreme detail that one can see the maze of filaments as well as star forming regions. The telescope Herschel is going to help astronomers solve mysteries of star formation due to the broad areas of the galactic plane that the telescope can photograph. Overall it's a very beautiful picture and the telescope seems very accurate and detailed.