mythologyofblue:

Wright’s Celestial Map of the Universe, 1742

Thomas Wright was an 18th-Century English astronomer who was credited with being the first to describe the shape of our own Milky Way galaxy.

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1 year ago on June 12, 2012 via abaldwin360
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