Some maps, illustrations and animations of the Milkyway and Universe:



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1. My own notes:

Simple glance on the large scale structure Universe


2. Some interactive Maps of the Milkyway:

Interactive Map of the Milky way (1) (Great: lots of features)
Interactive Map of the Milky way (2) (rotate, zoom in etc..;bit puzzling needed)
Interactive Map of the Milky way (3) (you can zoom in; bit puzzling needed)


3. Other illustrations, or animations, of the Milkyway:

Short Description Milkyway
Atlas of the Universe
Animation of the Milkyway (1)
Information Centre of the Milkyway (1)

Local Arm (Orion Arm) in the Milkyway (1)
Arms in the Milkyway (2)
Arms in the Milkyway (3)

Milky Way Rotational Velocity


4. Local Group of Galaxies (within about 10 M ly):

Local Group (1)
Local Group (2)
Local Group (3)


5. Galaxy / Cluster distributions:

- 2MASS:
2MASS observations: Galaxies within 400M ly (1)
2MASS observations: Galaxies within 400M ly (2)




Last update: 8 May, 2013