re: 15 top pictures from Flickr in 2017

Milky Way is curved? FAKE!

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Mont St-Michel, just off the coast of Normandy, France.

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I searched the image in Google, and it looks like it's Hallstatt, Austria.

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Wood pet

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Not as dangerous as a pit bull.

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I took the first one #iphone6s #photog #train #instakid #igersofdenhamsprings

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#nofilter (?)

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Here is one someone took from outside the galaxy to show how it curves

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I've always wondered how they get those pictures. I googled once and can't remember if it's a picture of a different spiral galaxy or a rendering.

ETA: It's the latter

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Here is the fantasy crushing fact: every top-down image of the Milky Way you have seen is an artist's rendering. These renditions, however, are not without merit. By studying the density of neutral and ionized hydrogen as well as the rotational motion of stars, we know that the Milky Way is a barrel spiral galaxy. We can also take top-down images of nearby galaxies, like the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), NGC 3344 , and the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51). These images help inform the mesmerizing top-down reconstructions of the Milky Way Galaxy we often see. The renditions are likely a very good approximation of how our galaxy looks from the outside, but they are not photographs.

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Where's Bastrop?

yeah, that is Andromeda I believe. Someone here will believe me though.

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Mont St-Michel, just off the coast of Normandy, France.

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Is that the first one or the second?

There are 2 back to back showing "mountain cities" both just off the water looking up to a mountain.

i see better pics than this walking through the quad