Gradually the view will zoom out, revealing open clusters of stars in our galaxy (red dots), the whole flat disk of the Milky Way with globular clusters of stars around it (purple dots), and then …

Jul 5, 2022 · This top-down view map shows our galaxy, the Milky Way, with a radial grid of circles every 15 kly centered on the Sun. The main structural components are highlighted along with …

Dec 12, 2017 · Where’s our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in this interactive? Look below at the still graphic, for the yellow letters marked MW. Our Milky Way is part of what’s called the Local …

A new interactive map of the universe lets you scroll from our position in the Milky Way all the way to the edge of the observable universe. Read More

Jul 23, 2019 · Astronomers mapped out the Local Void — an extensive, empty region of space that borders the Milky Way — revealing new details about the structure of our cosmic …

Aug 7, 2019 · They’ve constructed three-dimensional maps of our local universe, showing the Milky Way’s place with respect to our local cosmic void, which they call the Local Void. This …

Dec 19, 2023 · Explore our Milky Way in this map of the entire sky. It shows the total brightness and colour of 1.8 billion stars observed by ESA’s Gaia satellite and released as part of Gaia’s …

Apr 25, 2018 · Gaia is an ESA mission to survey more than one billion stars in our Galaxy and its local neighbourhood in order to build the most precise 3D map of the Milky Way and answer …

A Map of the Milky Way. This is a drawing of the Milky Way looking down from above. The evidence for this picture is provided below. The Sun is just one of 200 billion stars in this …

a face-on set of maps showing what our galaxy might look like from an interstellar spaceship, including the distances and positions of more than 8 thousand bright stars, star clusters, …