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Gaia. catalogues. An all-sky view of stars in the Milky Way and neighbouring galaxies, based on the first year of observations by Gaia, from July 2014 to September 2015. Map shows the density of stars observed by Gaia in each portion of the sky. Brighter regions indicate denser concentrations of stars, while darker regions correspond to patches ...
Starfield is a 2023 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. [2] In the game, the player character joins a group of space explorers who must venture to various corners of the galaxy to acquire mysterious artifacts. The game features an open world in the form of an area within the Milky Way ...
List of stellar streams. This is a list of stellar streams. A stellar stream is an association of stars orbiting a galaxy. It was once a globular cluster or dwarf galaxy that has now been torn apart and stretched out along its orbit by tidal forces. [1] An exception in the list about Milky Way streams given below is the Magellanic Stream ...
On the Bortle dark-sky scale, Fort Griffin comes in at a 2. Only Big Bend is darker. “You still get some light domes on the horizon, but generally, if you look up, you're going to see the Milky ...
The star clouds of the Milky Way hang over the Cape Lookout Lighthouse and its keepers' quarters in this Oct. 2, 2021, photo. The Cape Lookout area is a designated dark sky site where light ...
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.
UDF 2457 is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF) identifier for a red dwarf star calculated to be about 59,000 light-years (18 kiloparsecs) from Earth with a very dim apparent magnitude of 25. The Milky Way galaxy is about 100,000 light-years in diameter, and the Sun is about 25,000 light-years from the Galactic Center.
As the Earth is located within the dusty outer arms, there are large portions of the Milky Way that are obscured from view.: 837–842, 944 In the center of the Milky Way is the core, a bar-shaped bulge with what is believed to be a supermassive black hole at its center. This is surrounded by four primary arms that spiral from the core.