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The week in space
Sept. 13, 2013, 2:27 p.m. ET

An artist's impression of how the Milky Way galaxy would look when seen from almost edge on, a very different perspective than we get from Earth.
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An artist's impression of the Milky Way, including the spiral arms. It 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.
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The ESO 3.6-meter telescope at La Silla, Chile.
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An edge-on view galaxy NGC 4710 taken with NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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Expedition 36 Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA is carried to the medical tent shortly after he landed in Kazakhstan.
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