A new map of our Milky Way galaxy based on data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer pinned down the precise locations of our galaxy's spiral arms.
This map of the Milky Way shows the distribution of interstellar dust across the galaxy as seen by the Planck space observatory, a mission by the European Space Agency. (Image credit: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech) The yellow version (upper right) shows carbon monoxide gas, which is concentrated in...
Astronomers have published the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way. With over 200,000 images taken byESO‘s VISTA telescope, this map is a breakthrough that gives astronomers new insight into our galaxy. The telescope, located in Chile, is used to map large portions of the sky. Th...
Anytime astronomers talk of mapping the Milky Way I am always reminded how tricky the study of the Universe can be. After all, we live inside the Milky Way and working out what it looks like or mapping it from the inside is not the easiest of missions. It’s one thing to map the ...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which has worked closely with the ESA on the Planck mission, has used information collected by the satellite and has now released an interactive map of the Milky Way. The interactive map combines num...
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Milky Way Galaxy Sign in to edit History Talk (0) The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System.[1][2][3][nb 1] This name derives from its appearance as a dim "milky" glowing band arching across the night sky, in which the naked eye cannot distinguish individual...
Milky Way Galaxy - Structure, Dynamics, Stars: The first reliable measurement of the size of the Galaxy was made in 1917 by American astronomer Harlow Shapley. He arrived at his size determination by establishing the spatial distribution of globular clus
Image of the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy, produced from the observations made... NASA longitude-velocity map of the Milky Way Galaxy Longitude-velocity map of the Milky Way Galaxy as shown by spectral line emission... Dame, Hartmann, and Thaddeus (2001)/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astr...
Scientists reveal never-before-seen map of the Milky Way's central engine (image) The Milky Way is our home galaxy, but how well do we actually know it? As part of a NASA-funded project, a team led by Villanova University researchers has obtained a never-before-seen view of the ...