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Credit/Provider	CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/B. Tafreshi
Source	NSF's NOIRLab
Short title	A Tendril of Stars
Image title	If you were to squint at this Image of the Week, you might think that you were looking at a plume of sparks and smoke rising from the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a Program of NSF's NOIRLab. Upon closer inspection, however, the towering column of light and dark patches at the center of this image reveals itself to be the Milky Way. The sooty-looking regions are actually vast swathes of interstellar dust that block the passage of light, giving the illusion of empty regions in the Milky Way. The telescope in the foreground is the KMTNet 1.6-meter Telescope from the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network. As its name suggests, this telescope is just one of an internationally located network of telescopes— there are also KMTNet telescopes located in South Africa and Australia.
Usage terms	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Date and time of data generation	12:00, 1 December 2021
Software used	GIMP 2.10
File change date and time	17:55, 16 September 2021
Unique ID of original document	xmp.did:8b62ae72-773d-cf49-9237-b93d5893135d
Date and time of digitizing	08:44, 18 July 2015
Date metadata was last modified	10:55, 16 September 2021
Contact information	https://noirlab.edu 950 North Cherry Ave. Tucson, AZ, 85719 USA
IIM version	4