Credit & Copyright: John P. Gleason, Celestial Images
Explanation:
Most bright stars in our
Milky Way Galaxy reside in a disk.
Since our Sun also resides in this disk, these stars
appear to us as a
diffuse band that circles the sky.
The above panorama of a
northern band of the
Milky Way's disk covers 90 degrees and is a
digitally created mosaic of several independent exposures.
Scrolling right will display the rest of this spectacular picture.
Visible are many
bright stars,
dark dust lanes,
red emission nebulae,
blue reflection nebulae, and
clusters of stars.
In addition to all this matter that we can see,
astronomers
suspect there exists even more
dark matter that we cannot see.
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 |
Yanvar' Fevral' Mart Aprel' Mai Iyun' Iyul' Avgust Sentyabr' Oktyabr' Noyabr' Dekabr' |
NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Publikacii s klyuchevymi slovami:
Milky Way - Mlechnyi Put'
Publikacii so slovami: Milky Way - Mlechnyi Put' | |
Sm. takzhe:
Vse publikacii na tu zhe temu >> |