APOD 4.1

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110405.html

We are here, in the Milky Way. This galaxy is a spiral galaxy consisting of over 400 billion stars. We are quite a bit away from the Galactic Center(which is where the nuclear bulge is) in the Orion-Cygnus Arm. There are two other types of galaxies, elliptical and irregular(cosmic misfits). There's only one irregular galaxy documented, which is M82, The Cigar Galaxy in Ursa major. We are inside the disk of the Milky Way. This picture shows the waxing moon under the dramatic arch of the milky way.