Hubble Skymap - NASA Science
The Hubble Skymap puts the night sky at your fingertips any time of day. Roam the Milky Way to find a selection of galaxies, stars, nebulae and more, and click for a Hubble's-eye-view of each object.
The Milky Way Galaxy - NASA Science
2017年11月8日 · Like early explorers mapping the continents of our globe, astronomers are busy charting the spiral structure of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Using infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that the Milky Way's elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars.
This 3D Map of the Milky Way Is the Best View Yet of Our …
2019年8月1日 · These findings helped the astronomers build a large-scale 3D map of the Milky Way. This is the first such map based on directly measured distances to thousands of celestial landmarks across the...
See The Gigantic New Map Of The Milky Way That Took 13 Years …
2024年9月26日 · The new map, published today in Astronomy & Astrophysics, covers an area of the sky equivalent to 8,600 full moons, containing 200,000 separate images and 500 terabytes of data collected over 420...
What can you see in the VISTA Milky Way map? - Space.com
2024年9月27日 · The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images of over 1.5 billion objects within our galaxy.
Interactive map of the sky from Gaia’s Early Data Release 3
2023年12月19日 · Explore our Milky Way in this map of the entire sky. It shows the total brightness and colour of 1.8 billion stars observed by ESA’s Gaia satellite and released as part of Gaia’s Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3).
A New Map of the Milky Way - Scientific American
2020年4月1日 · High-resolution surveys chart the spiral structure of the galaxy and the location of our solar system. Hundreds of years ago explorers sailed across oceans and traversed uncharted continents to...
A Map of the Milky Way - Atlas of The Universe
A Map of the Milky Way. This is a drawing of the Milky Way looking down from above. The evidence for this picture is provided below. The Sun is just one of 200 billion stars in this typical barred-spiral galaxy that is about 90 000 light years in diameter.
ESA Science & Technology - Gaia
Gaia is an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, in the process revealing the composition, formation and evolution of the Galaxy. Gaia will provide unprecedented positional and radial velocity measurements with the accuracies needed to produce a stereoscopic and kinematic census of about one billion ...
Astronomers Release New All-Sky Map of Milky Way’s Outer …
2021年4月21日 · Astronomers using data from NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) telescopes have released a new all-sky map of the outermost region of our galaxy. Known as the galactic halo, this area lies outside the swirling spiral arms that form the Milky Way’s recognizable central disk and is sparsely populated with stars.