The Galaxy Plates
The Milky Way, looking in and looking out
Two plates of the Milky Way — the Sagittarius bulge and the Carina arm — drawn from catalogued stars.
Two plates of our own galaxy, seen from inside it, which is the only place anyone has ever seen it from. Which plate is the choice: looking in, toward the Sagittarius bulge and the direction of the galactic centre, where the disc thickens and the star fields run dense enough to read as cloud; or looking out along the Carina arm, past the Southern Cross and Eta Carinae to both Magellanic Clouds — the half of the sky the northern hemisphere never gets.
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