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Explore the Milky Way and other cosmic objects with the Hubble Skymap, an interactive online tool. Zoom in and out, scroll, and click to see Hubble images of galaxies, stars, nebulae and more.
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8 de nov. de 2017 · Learn about the spiral structure of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. See an annotated artist's concept of the two major arms, the central bar, and the new Far-3 kiloparsec arm.
Learn about the spiral structure, shape, and properties of our Galaxy from various sources and methods. See a drawing of the Milky Way looking down from above and compare it with other barred-spiral galaxies.
1 de ago. de 2019 · The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy comprised of a bar-shaped core region surrounded by a flat disk of gas, dust and stars about 120,000 light-years wide. Our solar system is located about...
Satellite observations. Map of stars cataloged by the Gaia release in 2021, displayed as density mesh in the diagram. The ESA spacecraft Gaia provides distance estimates by determining the parallax of a billion stars and is mapping the Milky Way with four planned releases of maps in 2016, 2018, 2021 and 2024.
Explore the full extent of the Milky Way galaxy, a spiral galaxy of at least two hundred billion stars, with this interactive map. Learn about the globular clusters, the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, the galactic plane and more.
