Star map. Image showing a star map of the Milky Way in galactic coordinates. This map shows an edge-on view of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, from th

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Star map. Image showing a star map of the Milky Way in galactic coordinates. This map shows an edge-on view of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, from the inside looking out. It was created by plotting the position, brightness, and colour of just over 100 million stars from the Bright Star, Tycho-2, and UCAC3 star catalogues.

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Size: 5993px × 2927px
Photo credit: © NASA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: astronomical, astronomy, bodies, body, bright, brightness, catalog, catalogs, catalogue, catalogues, celestial, chart, colour, constellation, constellations, coordinate, coordinates, cosmological, cosmology, edg-, edge, galactic, galaxy, map, mapping, milky, object, objects, planetary, position, positions, science, space, star, starry, stars, survey, tycho-2, ucac3