We were the only ones there that night, miles away from any real population. The Milky Way was absolutely stunning above the snow-capped mountains. I only wished it wasn’t so windy, so I could capture a better reflection in the lake, but regardless, it was another amazing night under ...
Milky Way Galaxy, large spiral system consisting of several hundred billionstars, one of which is theSun. It takes its name from the Milky Way, the irregularluminousband of stars and gas clouds that stretches across the sky as seen fromEarth. Although Earth lies well within the Milky Way Ga...
The Milky Way is best photographed during the darkest period of night between the end of astronomical dusk and the beginning of astronomical dawn. On either side of that is nautical twilight and blue hour, where only the brightest stars and a few planets are prominent but the Milky Way will ...
Photographing the Milky Way is an otherworldly experience. There aren’t many events as moving as seeing our galaxy rising and illuminating the night sky. However, at night, many things are invisible to the naked eye. When you use a camera to capture the Milky Way, a whole new world of ...
star clusters; open clusters; milky way; astrometry; data mining; stellar evolution 1. Introduction 1.1. The Gaia Mission The ESA Gaia space mission [1,2] is one of the most successful projects in the history of astronomy. The spacecraft was launched in December 2013 and has since been ...
The structure of the Milky Way galaxy as seen from above the galactic disk.(Image credit: NASA/Adler/U. Chicago/Wesleyan/JPL-Caltech) Gradually, a complex picture emerged of aspiral galaxythat appears quite ordinary. At the center of the Milky Way sits a supermassive black hole calledSagittari...
The majority of massive disk galaxies in the local Universe show a stellar barred structure in their central regions, including our Milky Way1,2. Bars are supposed to develop in dynamically cold stellar disks at low redshift, as the strong gas turbulence
In this picture, the galactic latitude tells you how much an object lies above or below the plane of the Galaxy, and the longitude specifies the angle away from the Galactic Centre. The above image shows a schematic diagram of what we think the Milky Way Galaxy looks like, with an indicat...
Why Is It Called The ‘Milky Way’? Our galaxy owes its name to the way it looks. If you’ve ever observed a picture of the Milky Way, you will have noticed a dim glowing band racing across the night sky surrounded on all sides by countless indistinguishable bright stars. ...
Science quotes on: | City (87) | Dwelling (12) | Nebula (16) | Way (1214) Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the [Mount Wilson Observatory]. … [Milton] Humason is showing [Harlow] Shapley stars he had found in the Andromeda Nebula that appeared and ...