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As the southern summer Milky Way closes for a rendezvous with the Sun, in the region between the Milky Way and the celestial equator can be found the largest constellation of them all, Hydra, the multi-headed serpent. Sprawled out along the length of this huge celestial serpent we find many beautiful examples of different types of galaxies, which together make up the southern autumn galaxies.
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Chadwick, S., Cooper, I. (2012). On the Serpent’s Back. In: Imaging the Southern Sky. Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4750-4_4
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