Yes, it's real, according to this post:

http://www.thedailydust.co.uk/2010/0...the-milky-way/

Apparently it's 'the core of a thick, sooty cloud large enough to swallow dozens of solar systems and may be harboring beastly stars in the process of forming'

Thought this was especially apt, having just found out 26 June 2010 is actually a partial lunar eclipse!
Perhaps it is all real after all! Let's just hope the doctor sorts it out.

o.O

And Series 4 had the bees disappearing, which later turned out to be true...

The bees were disappearing in real life before series 4 started.

NASA discover Doctor Who’s crack in the middle of the Milky Way

I think I might have been the only one who thought of something else reading that.

Captain Jack is on his way there now.

Indeed. I thought that had only been included because they were already disappearing, to bring a sense of reality to it...

My dad said something about the double reading when i showed him

The marketing on this series has been phenomenal!

And then RTD turns bees into aliens with a sense of forboding

What whoever wrote it did with the vespiform only confirmed my opinion of wasps.

Ahh, there was I crediting the production team with Nostradamus-esque qualities.

When I first saw this picture on SFX's website I did think that the BBC had probably been probably overdoing the promotion for the crack storyline.