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2. Gaia Sky - Wikipedia

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   Gaia Sky is a desktop and VR program that lets you explore the Milky Way and other celestial objects with data from the Gaia mission and other sources. You can ...

3. Laniakea Supercluster - Wikipedia

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   Laniakea Supercluster is the galaxy supercluster that includes the Milky Way and about 100,000 other nearby galaxies. It was defined in 2014 by a new method based on galaxy velocities and has four subparts: Virgo, Hydra–Centaurus, Great Attractor, and Antlia Wall.

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

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   Astronomers have made the most detailed infrared map of our galaxy ever made. The huge map has already helped changed our view of the galaxy in unexpected ways, according to its creators. In all ...

5. 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.

6. 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 ...

7. ESA's Gaia satellite mapped a billion stars in the Milky Way

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   The European Space Agency launched the Gaia satellite and its one-billion-pixel camera to space back in 2013. Gaia has been mapping the Milky Way ever since, and now the ESA has released a 3D map ...

8. Location of Earth - Wikipedia

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   Learn about the position and size of Earth in the Solar System, the Milky Way galaxy and the observable universe. See tables, diagrams and references for different scales and features of Earth's location.

9. Supergalactic coordinate system - Wikipedia

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   Learn about the reference frame for the supercluster of galaxies that contains the Milky Way, based on a local flat collection of galaxy clusters. Find out the history, definition, and transformation of the supergalactic coordinate system, and see examples of nearby galaxies plotted in the supergalactic plane.