... October 3, 1997 . Comet Halley and the MilkyWay . Credit: Kuiper Airborne Observatory , NASA . ... Halley was photographed superposed in front of the disk of our MilkyWay Galaxy in 1986 by the Kuiper Airborne Observatory ...
... December 29, 1997 . The MilkyWay in Infrared . Credit: The COBE Project , DIRBE , NASA . ... Until the invention of the telescope , nobody really knew what the "MilkyWay" was. ...
... The MilkyWay's Gamma-Ray Halo . Credit: D. Dixon ( UCR ), D. Hartmann ( Clemson ), E. Kolaczyk ( U. Chicago ), NASA . ... Explanation: Our MilkyWay galaxy appears to be surrounded by a halo of gamma rays . ...
... provided a remarkable galactic perspective on the Sun and its place in the MilkyWay ... looking towards the heart of the MilkyWay Galaxy, which lies in the constellation ...
... Educator's Guide to Inverse Square Law . Multiwavelength MilkyWay . ... center of our home galaxy, a spiral disk of 200 billion stars we call the MilkyWay ... The MilkyWay has two small galaxies orbiting it nearby, which are visible from the ...
... the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that is a satellite of our own MilkyWay ... Cloud, because its chemical composition is different from that of the MilkyWay ...
... HST , NASA . Explanation: Globular clusters once ruled the MilkyWay . ... any, young globular clusters in our MilkyWay Galaxy because conditions are not ripe ... compared to the 12 billion year ages of globular clusters in our own MilkyWay ...
... large sky areas, e.g., of the MilkyWay in which we live, of comparatively nearby ... the AXAF Deep Field , a field in the MilkyWay "Zone of Avoidance" in the general ...