Map Of Our Galaxy

With around 300 billion stars across the entire milky way, making a detailed map of our entire galaxy is nearly impossible. More than 100 scientists mapped the distances of over two million galaxies and quasars (supermassive black holes. Discover the amazing new worlds in our own galaxy!

A map of every object in our solar system view the high resolution version of this incredible map by clicking here the path through the solar system is a rocky road. There's an especially dense region called the great attractor (in red) that's slowly pulling the milky way. The upcoming release of data by the european gaia mission will allow astronomers to map the farthest reaches of our milky way galaxy and see much finer details in the galaxy's structure than ever befo

A map of the milky way this is a drawing of the milky way looking down from above.

Artist's logarithmic scale conception (e.g the scale decreases by 10 for every 1 unit you move out from the centre) of the observable universe with the solar system at the center, inner and outer planets, kuiper belt, oort cloud, alpha centauri, perseus arm, milky way galaxy, andromeda galaxy, nearby galaxies, cosmic web, cosmic microwave radiation and the big bang's invisible. This is the first such map based on directly measured distances to thousands of celestial landmarks across the. This map shows this tiny section of our galaxy that surrounds our sun. You can print and share the interactive map.