'23kpc' Chapter 45: A Long, Long Arc

...and what comes after

[Original astrophotography (obviously modified by me) by Luis Felipe Alburquerque Briganti, found on the Pexels site. I’m pretty sure *cough* this spiral galaxy is not, y’know, the actual Milky Way. (I’m pretty sure there’s no photo ever taken of the entirety of that subject, other than simulations like this panorama of the nighttime sky from Earth’s point of view — both hemispheres — as posted at the European Southern Observatory site.)]