Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. No, it is a composite taken from Earth orbit , well inside our Milky Way Galaxy . The above COBE image was recently reprocessed for higher resolution and shows red stars and dust in our Galaxy superposed against the faint glow of many dim stars in distant galaxies. Compared to the far-infrared sky , little Galactic dust is visible. The two smudges on the lower right are the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud s neighboring galaxies.
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