The Milkyway galaxy and beyond

[Remix]

A good perspective of the sheer scale and structure of our solar system, Milkyway galaxy and the Universe.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zJ8CUz4MZ1M

[Remix]

And here's another one... :)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=EjVoUZL0KAI&mode=related&search=

[titmeat]

i love this sorta shit
good find

[ben351]

http://www.perthfalcons.com/index.php?showtopic=1035&hl=

a dude off the perthfalcons.com forums takes photos with his camera and a fuck off huge lens/telescope

check his pics out

[confuzion]

i like that 2nd one, amazing shit man...

[confuzion]

sif registering on ford forum

[ben351]

you will register to play wow ...

ford > wow :D

[1JZVL]

one thing i wanna know is.. how the hell do they know what our galaxy looks like from the "outside"



:/

[Remix]

one thing i wanna know is.. how the hell do they know what our galaxy looks like from the "outside"

:/

2MASS infrared sky survey!

Read about 2MASS here: http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/overview/about2mass.html

http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/showcase/allsky/Allsky.jpg

[Lump]

one thing i wanna know is.. how the hell do they know what our galaxy looks like from the "outside"



:/

they dont, its a very good representation tho
but it depends on what you mean by 'what it looks like', if you want a map of it , thats been done, but an image is a long way off.

other galaxy types like ours are observed & used to paint a picture of what our galaxy looks like

[1JZVL]

other galaxy types like ours are observed & used to paint a picture of what our galaxy looks like

oh, now i understand.

der :P

thx