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The Multiwavelength Milky Way
Astrophysics Data Facility Poster 35-mm slides Video viewgraph VRML models Welcome to the new Multiwavelength Milky Way web pages! These pages bring together several data sets to visualize images of our Milky Way galaxy in various wavelength regions. The site's intent is to present and explain how data across the electromagnetic spectrum are used by astronomers to learn about the Milky Way's ...
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The Milky Way Galaxy.
The Milky Way is the galaxy which homes our Solar System together with at least 200 billion other stars and their planets, and thousands of clusters and nebulae including at least almost all objects of essier's catalog which are not galaxies on their own.
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The Canadian Galactic Plane Survey
The Canadian Galactic Plane Survey Welcome to the public information site for the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey! The CGPS is an international effort to map the interstellar matter in a large swath of our own Milky Way Galaxy (shown above) at high resolution. Details on various aspects of the project are available below. Introduction - an overview of project parameters, goals, observations, and ...
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The Milky Way
Our own Galaxy - the Milky Way Our own galaxy consists of about 200 billion stars, with our own Sun being a fairly typical specimen. It is a fairly large spiral galaxy and it has three main components: a disk, in which the solar system resides, a central bulge at the core, and an all encompassing halo. The spiral galaxy M83 which is believed to be similar in size and shape to the Milky Way (AAO) ...
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APOD Index - Galaxies: Milky Way
Astronomy Picture of the Day Index - Galaxies: Milky Way | Archive | Index | Search | Glossary | Today's Picture | 7, 000 Stars And The Milky Way A MACHO View of Galactic Dark Matter Gamma Ray Sky Map Lensing through Baade's Window The Milky Way Near the Northern Cross The Milky Way Near the Southern Cross The Milky Way's Center Radioactive Clouds in the Milky Way Sagittarius and the Central ...
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MAP Cosmology 101: The Milky Way
Quick Jump Menu: Quick Jump Menu Home Search Status News Technical Site Map Links Glossary Image Gallery About MAP The Milky Way The Milky Way is a gravitationally bound collection of roughly a hundred billion stars. Our Sun is one of these stars and is located roughly 24, 000 light years (or 8000 parsecs) from the center of our the Milky Way. COBE image of the Milky Way: (Courtesy of Ned Wright, ...
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The Milky Way
The Milky Way System The band of light that we call the Milky Way is actually the plane of the disk of our galaxy. The Sun is one, rather faint, example of approximately 200, 000, 000, 000 stars that make up our galaxy. These stars are mostly grouped into a flattened disk which has a bulge at its centre. The Sun is in this disk about two thirds of the way from its centre to its edge. When we look ...
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StarChild: The Milky Way
The Milky Way Guess what Only three galaxies outside of the Milky Way can be seen by the unaided eye here on Earth. People in the Northern Hemisphere can see the Andromeda Nebula while people in the Southern Hemisphere can see the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Our Sun is a star in the Milky Way Galaxy. If you were looking down on the Milky Way, it would look like a large pinwheel rotating ...
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The Milky Way Galaxy - Our Home
The Milky Way Galaxy - Our Home The Milky Way galaxy is the spiral galaxy we call home, as do roughly 100 billion other stars. It looks very much like other spiral galaxies when viewed from above. There are spiral arms and a bright central part. The Sun is far from the center of the Galaxy, halfway to the edge of the Galaxy along the Orion spiral arm. The Sun is revolving around the center of ...
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