Milky Way Star Map

And the milky way itself contains about 100 billion stars. The charts make great use of color and labels and the map offers a beautiful depiction of the arc of the Milky Way across the sky. The Milky Way is everywhere we look. This is a three state button which allows you to control what is displayed on the map.

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Milky Way Star Map. The smaller structure is a wake created by the LMCs motion through this region. The map could also offer a new test of dark matter theories. 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.

A larger and unlabelled version of the above map is available here. This map depicted the lines of longitude. You can use the slider at the top to manually zoom in and out or use the scroll-wheel on your mouse.

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. Astronomers using CSIROs Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder ASKAP radio telescope have observed the Large Magellanic Cloud a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located about. The map spans from about 200000 light-years to 325000 light-years from the galactic center and provides the first clear view of the major features in this region.

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