2020年4月1日 · Astronomers figured out that we live in a spiral galaxy by measuring the motions of gas throughout the disk—the large, pancake-shaped region that makes up the main body of …

6 天之前 · This is an artist’s impression of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data from ESA’s Gaia space telescope. The arrow points to the position of the Solar System, where we live. …

2025年1月15日 · Click here to download the labelled version of the Milky Way map [Image Description: A model image of what our home galaxy, the Milky Way, might look like face-on: …

Spiral arms are the major regions of star formation in spiral galaxies and this is where most of the major nebulae are found. There are two methods traditionally used to map the spiral structure …

This map shows the full extent of the Milky Way galaxy - a spiral galaxy of at least two hundred billion stars. Our Sun is buried deep within the Orion Arm about 26 000 light years from the …

2023年6月7日 · Astronomers have used the youngest objects in the Milky Way to build a new map of the galaxy's spiral arms, and the results are far messier than expected.

2024年10月15日 · This section of the Euclid mosaic is zoomed in 36 times, revealing the core of galaxy cluster Abell 3381, 470 million light-years from Earth. The image, made using both …

2025年1月15日 · The best Milky Way map, by Gaia (artist impression, edge-on) Science & Exploration The best Milky Way map, by Gaia (edge-on) 15/01/2025 7379 views 89 likes …

2019年8月2日 · This map shows the structure of our Galaxy’s young stellar population and allows us to constrain the warped shape of the Milky Way’s disk. A simple model of star formation in …

This map shows a slice of our Universe. It was created from astronomical data taken night after night over a period of 15 years using a telescope in New Mexico, USA. We are located at the …