Images Dated 17th March 1998

Jeremy Clarkson TV Presenter March 1998 At the Grosvenor Hotel attending the 1998

Jeremy Clarkson TV Presenter March 1998
At the Grosvenor Hotel attending the 1998 Royal TV Year Awards with TV Presenter Carol Vorderman

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1990s, 1998, 20th Century

Milky Way in the constellation of Aquila

Milky Way. Optical image of our galaxy, the Milky Way, in the constellation of Aquila the Eagle. The brightest star in Aquila is Altair (lower left). The Milky Way is a luminous band in the sky caused by the light of stars which are too numerous to be seen indivi-dually. The stars are numerous because an observer looking in their direction is viewing along the plane of our galaxy's disk. The dark lane in the Milky Way, called the Great Rift, runs from upper left to top right. The darkness of the Great Rift is caused by huge clouds of interstellar dust which block the light from the more distant stars

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