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  2. Orion Arm - Wikipedia

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    Maps A rough artist's depiction of the Orion Arm within the Milky Way, with features marked. Molecular clouds around the Sun inside the Orion-Cygnus Arm Interactive maps Orion and neighboring arms (clickable map) The nearest nebulae and star clusters (clickable map) See also

  3. Milky Way - Wikipedia

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    Map of stars cataloged by the Gaia release in 2021, displayed as density mesh in the diagram. The ESA spacecraft Gaia provides distance estimates by determining the parallax of a billion stars and is mapping the Milky Way with four planned releases of maps in 2016, 2018, 2021 and 2024.

  4. Satellite galaxies of the Milky Way - Wikipedia

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    List. Map with clickable regions. Streams. See also. Notes. References. Further reading. Satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. The Milky Way has several smaller galaxies gravitationally bound to it, as part of the Milky Way subgroup, which is part of the local galaxy cluster, the Local Group.

  5. Gaia Sky - Wikipedia

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    Gaia Sky is an open-source astronomy visualisation desktop and VR program with versions for Windows, Linux and macOS. It is created and developed by Toni Sagristà Sellés in the framework of ESA 's Gaia mission to create a billion-star multi-dimensional map of our Milky Way Galaxy, in the Gaia group of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ZAH ...

  6. Galactic quadrant - Wikipedia

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    Galactic quadrant. Longitudinal lines of the galactic coordinate system. A galactic quadrant, or quadrant of the Galaxy, is one of four circular sectors in the division of the Milky Way Galaxy. Numbered quadrants and sectors of constellations. Quadrants as starcharts, with most prominent stars marked.

  7. Laniakea Supercluster - Wikipedia

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    See also: Galaxy group, Galaxy cluster, List of galaxy groups and clusters The Laniakea Supercluster ( / ˌ l ɑː n i . ə ˈ k eɪ . ə / ; Hawaiian for "open skies" or "immense heaven") [2] is the galaxy supercluster that is home to the Milky Way and approximately 100,000 other nearby galaxies.

  8. Large Magellanic Cloud - Wikipedia

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    The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a dwarf galaxy and satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At a distance of around 50 kiloparsecs (163,000 light-years ), [2] [8] [9] [10] the LMC is the second- or third-closest galaxy to the Milky Way, after the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal ( c. 16 kiloparsecs (52,000 light-years) away) and the possible dwarf ...

  9. Galactic Center - Wikipedia

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    Galactic Center. The Galactic Center, as seen by one of the 2MASS infrared telescopes, is located in the bright upper left portion of the image. Marked location of the Galactic Center. The Galactic Center is the barycenter of the Milky Way and a corresponding point on the rotational axis of the galaxy.

  10. Galactic coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    Galactic coordinate system. Artist's depiction of the Milky Way Galaxy, showing the galactic longitude. A vector matching the plane of the galaxy, at 0° longitude, notably has the Galactic Center and intersects arms directly beyond. Far less of the galaxy lies at all points with opposing 180° longitude. The galactic coordinate system is a ...

  11. Gould Belt - Wikipedia

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    Mesh map of the inner Gould Belt created from Gaia observatory data. The Gould Belt is a local ring of stars in the Milky Way, tilted away from the galactic plane by about 16–20 degrees, first reported by John Herschel and Benjamin Gould in the 19th century.