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

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   Andrew Griffin. September 26, 2024 at 8:01 AM. (The Independent) Astronomers have made the most detailed infrared map of our galaxy ever made. The huge map has already helped changed our view of ...

3. Location of Earth - Wikipedia

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   Milky Way subgroup: 840,500 pc 2.59×10 19: 19.41: The Milky Way and those satellite dwarf galaxies gravitationally bound to it. Examples include the Sagittarius Dwarf, the Ursa Minor Dwarf and the Canis Major Dwarf. Cited distance is the orbital diameter of the Leo T Dwarf galaxy, the most distant galaxy in the Milky Way subgroup. Currently 59 ...

4. Gaia Sky - Wikipedia

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   Gaia Sky is an open-source astronomy visualisation desktop and VR program with versions for Windows, Linux and macOS.It is created and developed by Toni Sagristà Sellés in the framework of ESA's Gaia mission to create a billion-star multi-dimensional map of our Milky Way Galaxy, in the Gaia group of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ZAH, Universität Heidelberg).

5. New 3D Map of the Milky Way Shows Our Galaxy's Heart Is ... - AOL

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   A new, incredibly detailed 3D map of the Milky Way has revealed that its central disk is wavy, much like an enormous potato chip.This new picture of the galactic disk — the central region of the ...

6. Milky Way - Wikipedia

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   The Milky Way[ c ] is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.

7. 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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. Radcliffe wave - Wikipedia

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   Radcliffe wave. The approximate outline of the Radcliffe wave in Earth's night sky. The Radcliffe wave is a neighbouring coherent gaseous structure in the Milky Way, dotted with a related high concentration of interconnected stellar nurseries. It stretches about 8,800 light years. [ 1 ][ 2 ] This structure runs with the trajectory of the Milky ...