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2. Scientists make most detailed ever infrared map of the Milky ...

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   The map is made up of 200,000 images taken by Vista, which is located at the ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. ... “The completion of the largest infrared map of the Milky Way is a ...

3. How to spot the Milky Way without a telescope this summer - AOL

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   Story at a glance (NewsNation) — This summer, you can gaze at the Milky Way without the need for a telescope, but you may have to drive a bit to get a good view. The center of our galaxy is ...

4. Astonishingly detailed map of the Milky Way will blow your mind

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   We now have the most detailed catalogue of stars in our Milky Way galaxy yet. The new map — created using data collected by the Gaia satellite — shows about 1.7 billion stars, including many ...

5. Galactic Center - Wikipedia

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   The Galactic Center is the barycenter of the Milky Way and a corresponding point on the rotational axis of the galaxy. It contains a supermassive black hole of about 4 million solar masses, called Sagittarius A*, which is a compact radio source near the galactic rotational center.

6. Sloan Digital Sky Survey - Wikipedia

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   A major astronomical project that imaged and spectroscopically studied over 35% of the sky and 4 million objects. The survey data, released in several phases, provide insights into the structure, evolution and history of the universe.

7. Milky Way - Wikipedia

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   The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with a diameter of 26.8 ± 1.1 kiloparsecs (87,400 ± 3,600 light-years ). It is a barred spiral galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center and many satellite galaxies.

8. Stunning New Map of the Milky Way Shows 800 Million ... - AOL

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   At first, it looks like a planet: dark, snow-speckled and slashed down the center by a deep red scar. But zoom in a little closer, and you realize you're looking at something much larger than a ...

9. Radcliffe wave - Wikipedia

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   A clickable map of the nearby circa one-sixth outer sector of the galaxy, thus clearly showing the Local Arm (Orion Arm) and neighboring arms - as well as the Great Orion Nebula (as a very luminous feature of the less bright Orion molecular cloud complex) and broad-clouds North America Nebula (and Pelican Nebula) which is an intrinsic part of the Radcliffe wave.