| THE MILKY WAY'S INVISIBLE LIGHT | G00-092 | 8/31/00 | 00:28:18 | How can we know what our galaxy looks like from the outside when we live amidst it. To uncover our position and place in the Universe astronomers have had to develop a new type of vision. In the last half century and mainly in the past 30 years astronomers have discovered new ways to observe the sky. They have found that there is much to be learned from what they cannot see with their eyes as there is with what they can see. They found the secrets of the galaxy hiding in the invisible light of the Milky Way. |