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During late summer in the Earth's Northern Hemisphere, the Milky Way arches delicately across the evening sky from northeast to southwest.  In this portrait of our Home Star City, we see the bright star clouds and the dark dust lane that define its plane, and the galaxy's central bulge just above the horizon.  Because exposure times for the stars and foreground are so different, this composite shows the scene as it appeared to the eye.