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It's the so-called "Milky Way season" in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about viewing the galaxy ...
The map (top) is made up of several different views of the Milky Way: Dust Glow (upper left); Carbon Monoxide Gas (upper right); Carbon Monoxide Gas (upper right); and Magnetic Fields (lower right).
Gleamoscope, an interactive map, lets you explore the Milky Way galaxy and the nearby universe in many different electromagnetic frequencies.
The map, which Ménard assembled with the help of former Johns Hopkins computer science student Nikita Shtarkman, visualizes a slice of the universe, or about 200,000 galaxies—each dot on the map is a ...
Using the map, you can zoom right in to our solar system, and then pull back through our local star system, and then all the way outside the Milky Way for a spectacular view. The map also has an ...
The wonders of our galaxy are on full display in a new infrared map of the Milky Way, showing a stunning 1.5 billion objects using data collected over 13 years.
A new interactive panoramic lets you a take a full 360° tour of our galaxy — complete with a few stops along the way. It's the work of NASA's Spitzer ...
The Milky Way is located at the intersection of the red, blue and green arrows. The new map helps us better define our place in the cosmos. (This image is a 2D version of the map.) (Image credit ...
An incredbile new map to the cosmos reveals the precise locations of more than 1.7 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy and some 14,000 objects orbiting our sun.
Astronomers at Johns Hopkins University created a new map, which shows the sweeping view of the cosmos from the Milky Way galaxy to the edge of the visible universe.. The interactive map has the ...