MILKY WAY
The Milky Way Illustration showing, in the center, the Milky Way, in the upper right corner, the size of the sun compared, in decreasing order, to: - A red dwarf ( x the size of the sun) - Jupiter ( x the size of the sun) - Saturn ( x the size of the sun) - Neptune ( x the size of the sun) - A white dwarf ( x the size of the sun) - Earth ( x the size of the sun) - A neutron star ( 007 x the size of the sun). In the lower right corner, the relative size of the largest stars to the sun: - Red supergiant (MU CEPHEI) 1200 x the size of the sun - Red supergiant (BETELGEUSE) 400 x the size of the sun - White giant (CANOPUS-ALPHA DU NAVIRE) 150 x the size of the sun - Red giant (ALDEBARAN) 45 x the size of the sun On the left, illustration of the disk-shaped Milky Way (side view), the spiral Milky Way (seen from above) with its four arms, and a diagram showing the location in space of the stars closest to the sun, according to the \Cambridge Atlas of Astronomy\.
Size: 9448px × 6732px
Photo credit: © JACOPIN / BSIP / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: aldebaran, alpha, art, artwork, astronomical, astronomy, betelgeuse, bodies, body, canopus, carinae, celestial, cephei, drawing, drawings, dwarf, dwarfs, dwarves, earth, erakis, galaxies, galaxy, garnet, giant, giants, heavenly, herschel, illustration, illustrations, jupiter, milky, mu, neptune, neutron, object, objects, orionis, planet, planetary, planets, red, saturn, scheme, schemes, solar, spiral, star, stars, sun, sunny, sunshine, supergiant, supergiants, system, tauri, white, work
