Milky Way Galaxy Map

Once the view zooms out to contain both the Sun and the center of the Milky Way a white line connects the two giving a sense of the geometry of the Milky Way. In the future the researchers plan to refine their 3D map of the Milky Way by charting the distances between the sun and other pulsating stars known as RR Lyrae. Our galaxy stretches 100000 light years wide. Computer models predicted that the disc of the Milky Way will grow larger with time as new stars are born.

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Today researchers have a suitable map of our galaxys spiral structure but like early explorers charting new territory they continue to patiently and meticulously fill in the blanks.

Milky Way Galaxy Map. The spacecraft has been mapping the stars from its orbit at a distance of 15 million km beyond the suns orbit. For this picture is provided below. The Milky Way is the second-largest galaxy in the Local Group after the Andromeda Galaxy with its stellar disk approximately 170000200000 light-years 5261 kpc in diameter and on average approximately 1000 ly 03 kpc thick.

The only object you can see without optical aid in the sky outside of the milky way is the Andromeda Galaxy. An interactive 3D visualization of the stellar neighborhood including over 100000 nearby stars. A Map of the Milky Way This is a drawing of the Milky Way looking down from above.

Using infrared images from NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope scientists have discovered that the Milky Ways elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Created for the Google Chrome web browser. While the Milky Way appears as an arch to our eyes it is actually a spiral galaxya sprawling pinwheel of starlight and dust containing 100 to 400 billion stars.

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