The Milky Way.
A hundred billion stories. Start with the one we call home.
Galactic time
Model epoch +0.00 Myr
Graphics
Details
A Gaia-informed reconstruction of our Galaxy, with a warm central bar, a delicate stellar disk, and dark lanes of interstellar dust.
26,700light-years from the center
to the place we call home
Reconstructed structure · representative starsto the place we call home
Preparing the observatory…
Camera
FROM GALACTIC CENTER—Drag to orbit · scroll to approach
Preparing the observatory…
Model