Chowist Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Milky Way - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way

   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.

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

   www.aol.com/scientists-most-detailed-ever...

   The huge map has already helped changed our view of the galaxy in unexpected ways, according to its creators. In all, it catalogues more than 1.5 billion objects, a vast improvement on previous ...

4. Laniakea Supercluster - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laniakea_Supercluster

   The Laniakea Supercluster (/ ˌ l ɑː n i. ə ˈ k eɪ. ə /; Hawaiian for "open skies" or "immense heaven") [2] or the Local Supercluster (LSC or LS) is the galaxy supercluster that is home to the Milky Way and approximately 100,000 other nearby galaxies.

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

   www.aol.com/news/3d-map-milky-way-shows...

   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. Location of Earth - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location_of_Earth

   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 ...

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

   www.aol.com/news/stunning-map-milky-way-shows...

   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. Supergalactic coordinate system - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergalactic_coordinate...

   Galaxies and galaxy clusters < 50 M ly away from Earth plotted in the supergalactic plane. The supergalactic coordinate system is a reference frame for the supercluster of galaxies that contains the Milky Way galaxy, referenced to a local relatively flat collection of galaxy clusters used to define the supergalactic plane.

9. Scientists map the Milky Way Galaxy in exceptional detail - AOL

   www.aol.com/news/2016-10-24-milky-way-galaxy...

   There have been detailed maps of the Milky Way before, but none quite so ornate as this. Researchers in the HI4PI sky survey have created a fine-grained map of our home galaxy using its most ...