The Milky Way Atlas
The Milky Way Atlas
The Milky Way, our home Galaxy, is a large concentration of gas, dust, and a few hundred billion stars. Our star, the Sun, is one among them. The Milky Way is called a spiral galaxy for its spiral arms, where much of the gas is concentrated.
After an overview of the data groups, we will lead you through the Milky Way Atlas in a series of self-guided tutorials, then provide a reference for each data group.
If the Milky Way Atlas runs slowly on your computer, please jump ahead to “Optimizing the Milky Way Atlas” for solutions to improve this problem.
Subsections
- Milky Way Atlas Overview
- Milky Way Atlas Tutorial
- Milky Way Data Groups
- Optimizing the Milky Way Atlas
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Last Modified: 2007-12-19 by Brian Abbott