The Origin of the Milky Way, by Tintoretto, c. 1575.
Jupiter accidentally creates the Milky Way when he nurses Hercules at Juno's breast to grant him immortality, and when she awakens, her milk spills, forming the galaxy.
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Home hides in a quiet corner of the #MilkyWay, a vast spiral galaxy 100,000 light-years wide with arms like luminous highways. #Earth rests in the #OrionArm, a modest spur between #Sagittarius and #Perseus, marked by the #OrionNebula and the #Pleiades cluster. There, about two-thirds from the galactic center, a yellow star glows鈥攖he #Sun. One among roughly 400 billion #stars, it shelters the only world we know, the fragile speck where every human story unfolds. #Science #Physics #Astrodon #Space