Great Rift (astronomy) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 30/12/2018

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00:00:58 1 Properties
00:02:08 2 Human observation
00:03:21 3 Gallery
00:03:30 4 See also



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In astronomy, the Great Rift (sometimes called the Dark Rift, or less commonly the Dark River), is an area of dark bands that appear to obscure the center of the Milky Way galaxy when seen from the earth. They are thought to be an aggregation of overlapping, non-luminous, molecular dust clouds that lie between the Solar System and the Sagittarius Arm of the galaxy. They form a dark lane through the starry path of the Milky Way which, seen from Earth, is a hazy band of white light, some 30° wide, arching across the night sky. These clouds are located about 800–1,000 parsecs (2,600–3,300 ly) from Earth. The clouds are estimated to contain about 1 million solar masses of plasma and dust.