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The summer sky is dominated by the Milky Way, and for northern observers, this is the best time of the year to see that part of the Milky Way that passes through the southern constellations of Scutum, Sagittarius and Scorpius. What we’re looking at is in fact the Sagittarius-Carina Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. Moreover, the bit of this arm that we can see is closer to the galactic core than we are, and when we turn our telescopes towards Sagittarius, what we’re actually doing is looking straight into the core of the Milky Way Galaxy.
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Monks, N. (2010). Summer. In: Go-To Telescopes Under Suburban Skies. Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6851-7_4
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