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“The Long Arc” | Source: RubinObs / NOIRLab / SLAC / DOE / NSF / AURA / Paulo Assunção Lago

$49.95

A slow river of stars stretches across the sky, revealing our galaxy not as a place, but as a path ~ a luminous spine of dust, gas, and ancient light flowing endlessly through the dark.

A slow river of stars stretches across the sky, revealing our galaxy not as a place, but as a path ~ a luminous spine of dust, gas, and ancient light flowing endlessly through the dark.

    • Object: The Milky Way Galaxy (central band)

    • Location: Above Cerro Pachón, Chile

    • Observatory Nearby: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory

    • What You’re Seeing: The dense central plane of the Milky Way, rich with dust lanes, star clouds, and nebulae

    • Hidden Detail: The Small Magellanic Cloud appears in the lower right — a neighboring dwarf galaxy

    • Atmospheric Effect: Green and red airglow visible along the horizon

    • Orientation Trick: The image works both right-side up and upside down

    • Cosmic Scale: The Milky Way spans roughly 100,000 light-years across

    • Why It’s Special: Captures our galaxy as structure, not scenery — a living arc of motion and history

    • 🐾 Feline Perspective: A perfect, uninterrupted walkway. Must patrol the entire length.

    • Approx. 23”W x 18.5”H

    • Large format, vibrant, high-quality print on durable, semi-rigid thermoplastic.

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