The Milky Way

This query has just sprung to mind, we all know 'The Milky Way' is really nice n spiraly n colourful for want of better words but how the hell do they get pictures of it, is it just a rough guess or do they get pics of another galaxy??

In epsode 43 Kirk was forced out of the galaxe by alians trying to get home and after he got his ship back but befor he returned he decided it would be a great time to snap a few photos.
Realy though theres are no Full photos of our galaxe the only parts we see from earth is one spiral arm and the center the rest we just fill in by estamating where the groups of stars are located. the full photos you see are drawn photos .Or possibly photos of another galaxe that we think looks like ours.

Originally posted by Simcity4Rushour
In epsode 43 Kirk was forced out of the galaxe by alians trying to get home and after he got his ship back but befor he returned he decided it would be a great time to snap a few photos.

Realy though theres are no Full photos of our galaxe the only parts we see from earth is one spiral arm and the center the rest we just fill in by estamating where the groups of stars are located. the full photos you see are drawn photos .Or possibly photos of another galaxe that we think looks like ours.

Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaank yea very much i can sleep soundly tonight lol

If you see a pic of our Galaxy (and it's not a flat band), then you're seeing either a piece of artwork OR you're seeing the Andromeda galaxy. They use Andromeda for a lot of things.

Here's quite nice collection of galaxy photos:
www.astro.princeton.edu...

Here's also other kind galaxies:
hubblesite.org...

Yeah, just wanna say thanks fo ya all for the help and answerin the question for me

THERE ARE NO PIC'S ORE FOTO'S OF OURE MILKY-WAY!
SINCE WE ONLY CAN SEE THE SIDE OF IT COUSE OF OURE POSITION IN THE GALAXIE.. (ON AN DARK CLEAR SKY YOU CAN SEE THE BAND IN THE SKY..
ONLY COMPUTERS CAN GIVE AN ESTIMATED VIEUW OF OUR GALAXIE SEEN IN ITS FULL GLORIE...

(ressiv, next time you should use less caps, and spell check)


but anyways.. Yeah, we can see a staright forward view because of the position in our arm..

Originally posted by Bongobob
(ressiv, next time you should use less caps, and spell check)

You read my mind lol

pictures are great and all. is there a map of the milky way? like a real comprehensive detailed map of the layout. that would be pretty cool. you dont need a picture in order to map the lay out of our galaxy. or would that be just too many damn stars to layout on a map. still i think that would be pretty cool.

I think they have made 3D models of our galaxy by measuring distance to stars.

Actually there are images of our milky way but these images are made up from messurments made by radio telescops. Although we are infact on the rim of the galaxy on one of the arms of the spiral we cannot look very far into the galaxy because of the amount of matter between us and the centre. However, we have been recording some rather interesting radiation comming from the centre of our galaxy that is infact a Super Massive Black Hole that occationally munchies it's way through some of the stars that are located around there.

Incidently, there are some stars that are right on the edge of the supper massive black hole (called Sagatarious A) that are revolving around it at such a speed that they are litrally being stretched from being a globe to being eliptical.

There is also evidence to suggests that our Milky way galaxy ripped appart another smaller galaxy. I often wonder if there is in fact 2 supper massive black holes in our galaxy, the location of the second is of course a mystery.

A Very strange thing is that way way way back in history... more than 3 thousand years there are artifacts that appear to show a map of our Galaxy... Very strange as they appear to be very acurate.

All the best People,

Tim.

perhaps the extra terrestrials tought them about our galaxy.

they should have a galaxy forecast channel or something, like the weather channel. just highlight all of the strange occuranced happening in our galaxy, like black holes, supernova, globuar cluster, all that crazy stuff. i know they dont directly relate to us, it would still be more entertaining then those damned reality shows!

also another question, have we ever gotten a probe outside of our galaxy? whats the farthest we have ever sent something into space?

Originally posted by Stuey1221
This query has just sprung to mind, we all know 'The Milky Way' is really nice n spiraly n colourful for want of better words but how the hell do they get pictures of it, is it just a rough guess or do they get pics of another galaxy??

Comment: Does this look good?




chandra.harvard.edu...

See Also:

antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov...

[edit on 18-9-2004 by SkipShipman]

Recently, astronomers using the 2MASS infrared sky survey imaged the entire
sky, and put together this dramatic image of the complete Milky Way:




www.astronomycafe.net...


University of California Berkeley -- Razor-sharp optics on ground-based telescopes now allows astronomers to peer at events occurring near the very edge of our galaxy's central black hole, providing new clues about the massive but invisible object at the core of the Milky Way.

In a paper in this week's issue of Nature, a team led by University of California, Berkeley, physicist Reinhard Genzel, who also directs the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching, Germany, reports the detection of powerful infrared flares from a region just outside the supermassive black hole.






A separate team from UCLA reported last month in Astrophysical Journal that it had seen similar variability in infrared emissions from the galaxy's central black hole using the adaptive optics on the W. M. Keck II telescope in Hawaii. Adaptive optics allows telescopes to overcome the image distortions in the optical/infrared wavelength region caused by the turbulent terrestrial atmosphere.

By flexing a deformable mirror, adaptive optics on the VLT produces an image about 10 times sharper in the near-infrared than with conventional observations, and about four times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope working at this wavelength.

www.rednova.com...




[edit on 18-9-2004 by SkipShipman]

Originally posted by SkipShipman
Recently, astronomers using the 2MASS infrared sky survey imaged the entire
sky, and put together this dramatic image of the complete Milky Way:




www.astronomycafe.net...



[edit on 18-9-2004 by SkipShipman]

Very very impressive........!!!!

Thanks very much for that SkipShipman....!!!

what a stunning image!!

looking at all those stars is gonna make my brain explode

Originally posted by sturod84

also another question, have we ever gotten a probe outside of our galaxy? whats the farthest we have ever sent something into space?

The farthest manmade object out there is Voyager 1, right now it about twice as far as pluto.
voyager.jpl.nasa.gov...

It will take Voyager about 300 million years to reach the edge of the galaxy.

Here is a map of the milky way.
anzwers.org...



[edit on 8-10-2004 by Shmigoli]

Here's nice image from milky way with different wavelengths.





Multiwavelength Milky Way Maps