Have you seen pictures of Galaxy, our home galaxy? Maybe you have, and many times. And have you ever questioned the idea of how these images were created?
The artist’s view of the Milky Way galaxy as seen from a distance Galactic North is annotated with arms as well as the distance from the Solar System and galactic longitude to the respective constellation. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESO/R. Hurt, derivative work: Cmglee via WikimediaPublic domain
We can’t see our galaxy from the outside – we need a very capable spacecraft to do that, to go outside far enough. And even if we had a spacecraft capable of traveling at the speed of light, we’d still need tens of thousands of years to reach an optimal vantage point to capture the stunning images – and feet. real – of this Milky Way.
Meanwhile, it took 44 years until Traveling spaceship managed to reach the furthest outskirts of the Solar System, about 0.002 light-years from Earth. So how is the picture of the Milky Way created? And more – how do we know our exact position in our galaxy? The following video aims to answer this question:
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