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During southern spring evenings when the great band of the Milky Way lays around the horizon and the south galactic pole pushes up toward the zenith, this is the time to venture well beyond the bounds of our own galaxy to other ‘Island Universes.’ We journey through the southern galaxies which spread out across the void like sparks flying from the great celestial furnace!
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Chadwick, S., Cooper, I. (2012). Galaxies in the Furnace. 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_9
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