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Hace 4 días · Milky Way Galaxy, large spiral system consisting of several hundred billion stars, one of which is the Sun. It takes its name from the Milky Way, the irregular luminous band of stars and gas clouds that stretches across the sky as seen from Earth.
- Star Populations and Movement
Spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way Galaxy have Population...
- Structure, Dynamics, Stars
The Milky Way Galaxy’s structure is fairly typical of a...
- Kepler’s Nova
Kepler’s Nova, one of the few supernovae (violent stellar...
- Andromeda Galaxy
Andromeda Galaxy, (catalog numbers NGC 224 and M31), great...
- Tycho’s Nova
Tycho’s Nova, one of the few recorded supernovas in the...
- Crab Nebula
Crab Nebula, (catalog numbers NGC 1952 and M1), probably the...
- Sagittarius
Sagittarius, in astronomy, zodiacal constellation in the...
- Ursa Minor
Ursa Minor, in astronomy, a constellation of the northern...
- Star Populations and Movement
Hace 2 días · The Andromeda Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy and is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. It was originally named the Andromeda Nebula and is cataloged as Messier 31, M31, and NGC 224.
Hace 4 días · The Milky Way Galaxy’s structure is fairly typical of a large spiral system. (Spiral galaxies and other types of galaxies are described in the article galaxy .) This structure can be viewed as consisting of six separate parts: (1) a nucleus, (2) a central bulge, (3) a disk (both a thin and a thick disk), (4) spiral arms, (5) a ...
5 de sept. de 2024 · Closest spiral galaxy: Andromeda is the nearest spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy. Visible without a telescope: It can be seen with the unaided eye on clear, dark nights.
Hace 4 días · Spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way Galaxy have Population I concentrated in the spiral disk and Population II spread out in a thick disk and/or a spherical halo. Elliptical galaxies are nearly pure Population II, while irregular galaxies are dominated by a thick disk of Population I, with only a small number of Population II stars.
Hace 2 días · Planet Earth is located in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way (called the Orion Arm) which lies about two-thirds of the way out from the center of the galaxy. We know how big the Earth is ...
1 de sept. de 2024 · NGC 6744 is a spiral galaxy bigger than, but otherwise very similar to, our own. NASA has dubbed the large spiral galaxy the Milky Way’s ‘big brother’.