Watch the Sun's 220-million-year orbit in the Milky Way's ... - YouTube
WEBWatch as the Sun and the Milky Way's warped disk travel around the center of the galaxy in this animation created using ESA Gaia mission data.
Milky Way and Our Location - NASA
WEBFeb 1, 2012 · The Milky Way Galaxy is organized into spiral arms of giant stars that illuminate interstellar gas and dust. The Sun is in a finger called the Orion Spur. Graphic view of our Milky Way Galaxy.
Milky Way - Wikipedia
WEBThe 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.
Animation of the Sun’s Position in the Milky Way Galaxy
WEBFounded in 1956, the NRAO provides state-of-the-art radio telescope facilities for use by the international scientific community. NRAO telescopes are open to all astronomers regardless of institutional or national affiliation. Observing time on NRAO telescopes is available on a competitive basis to qualified scientists after evaluation of ...
Professor Brian Cox - What is the Milky Way? - BBC Teach
WEBThis video explains what a galaxy is, using the Milky Way as an example. It explores the composition of a galaxy, emphasising that stars, dust and gas make up only a tiny fraction of the total...
What is the Milky Way? It’s our home galaxy - EarthSky
WEBJan 1, 2024 · The Milky Way from a distance. So, what does the Milky Way would look like from the outside? How many spiral arms there are? How big is the galaxy and how many stars does it hold?
Where Are We In The Milky Way | Milky Way Facts - Star Walk
WEBFeb 25, 2022 · Our Sun is located nearly 27,000 light-years from the Milky Way’s nucleus, or about halfway between its center and the edge. Our Solar System is placed between two main arms — Scutum-Centaurus and Perseus, within the small partial arm named the Orion Arm or Orion Spur.
Milky Way galaxy: Facts about our cosmic neighborhood | Space
WEBApr 18, 2023 · The Milky Way galaxy is our cosmic home. A barred spiral galaxy stretching 100,000 light-years across. Here we explore our galactic neighborhood in more detail.
The Milky Way: Earth’s home galaxy | Astronomy.com
WEBAug 2, 2019 · The Sun now lies about 27,200 light-years from the Milky Way’s center — more than one-third of the way into the disk — and roughly 90 light-years above the galaxy’s midplane.
Skylight: How Does Our Solar System Move Around the Milky Way?
WEBMay 20, 2018 · Over the next billion years, the Sun, with planets in tow, will circle the galaxy about four times. [Solar system grid fades out. Zoom in towards beginning of line, Sun’s current position.]