Galaxy
The Milky Way
The barred spiral galaxy that contains the Solar System, the Sun, and all stars visible to the naked eye.
- Type
- Galaxy
- Domain
- Scientific connections
- Connections
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ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech · NASA media (public domain)
- Type: Galaxy
- Domain: Scientific connections
Experience system V6
Galaxy morphology profile
A deep-sky composition that treats the object as a physical structure, not a decorative background image.
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Observe
NASA imagery anchors the visual reading with licensed source metadata.
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Measure
Measurement panels use graph coverage, catalog identifiers, and source availability without inventing values.
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Locate
Contains Sagittarius A*.
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Connect
53 graph relations shape the knowledge viewport.
- Object type
- Galaxy
- Graph relations
- 53
- Verified sources
- 3
- Image records
- 4
- Domain
- Scientific connections
- Status
- Graph entity
Scientific map
Atlas context
- Contains
Sagittarius A*
- Contains
The Pleiades
- Contains
The Hyades
- Contains
Solar System
Original SVG diagram
Deep-sky morphology
- Object class
- Galaxy
- Catalog numbers
- Not recorded
- Image records
- 4
- Graph relations
- 53
Visual knowledge graph
Relationships, not isolated facts
This viewport is generated from the Asteria knowledge graph. Science, culture, and interpretive links remain separated by domain so visual context never changes the evidentiary meaning of a relation.
- Scientifically related toAndromeda Galaxy
The nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way.
- Studied byAnnie Jump Cannon
Developed stellar spectral classification.
- Associated withBarred Spiral Galaxy
- Studied byCarl Sagan
Astronomer and science communicator.
- Studied byCaroline Herschel
Comet hunter and astronomer.
- Related toEvidence for Dark Matter
- Studied byFAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope)
- Studied byGaia
41 more graph links
- Hipparchus
- Laniakea Supercluster
- Large Magellanic Cloud
- Local Group Explorer
- Milky Way Explorer
- Nancy Grace Roman
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Omega Centauri
- Ptolemy
- Sagittarius A*
- Sagittarius A* — The Milky Way's Black Hole
- Shortest-Path Finder
- Small Magellanic Cloud
- Solar System
- Spitzer Space Telescope
- The Expansion of the Universe
- The Galactic Bar
- The Galactic Bulge
- The Galactic Centre
- The Galactic Coordinate System
- The Galactic Corona
- The Galactic Habitable Zone
- The Galactic Warp
- The Great Debate
- The Hyades
- The Local Group
- The Local Group
- The Milky Way
- The Milky Way over Paranal
- The Milky Way's Central Black Hole
- The Pleiades
- The Spiral Arms
- The Stellar Halo
- The Thick Disk
- The Thin Disk
- Triangulum Galaxy
- Tycho Brahe
- Vera C. Rubin Observatory
- Vera Rubin
- Very Large Array
- Very Large Telescope (VLT)
Image provenance
Photography as evidence
Milky Way Untangled
ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech · NASA media (public domain)
A Break in the Milky Way's Sagittarius Arm
NASA/JPL-Caltech · NASA media (public domain)
A Milky Way Mixer Amongst the Stars
ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech · NASA media (public domain)
A Glimpse of the Milky Way
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Wisconsin · NASA media (public domain)
Continue the atlas
Curated next objects
Sagittarius A*
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope in 2022.
star clusterThe Pleiades
A bright open star cluster of hot young stars, easily visible to the naked eye.
star clusterThe Hyades
The nearest open star cluster to the Solar System, forming a V-shaped grouping of stars.
locationSolar System
The Sun and the bodies gravitationally bound to it.
observatoryVery Large Telescope (VLT)
ESO's optical/infrared array of four 8.2-metre telescopes at Cerro Paranal in Chile's Atacama Desert.
observatoryGreen Bank Telescope
The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, a 100-metre dish in Green Bank, West Virginia.
Observation
How this was captured
- Source
- NASA
- Observation date
- 2015-02-05
Gallery
A Milky Way Mixer Amongst the Stars
This composite image comes from the ESA Planck shows a festive portrait of our Milky Way galaxy shows a mishmash of gas, charged particles and several types of dust.
2015
ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech · NASA media (public domain)
Data
Scientific data & provenance
Data & provenance
- Stable ID
galaxy:milky-way- Type
- Galaxy
- Domain
- Scientific connections
- Relationships
- 53
- Graph version
- 1.0.0
Dataset membership
Open data
In the graph export: graph.json · graph.jsonld
Planned API: GET /api/v0/entities/galaxy:milky-way
Scientific quality
Substantial4 of 6 applicable dimensions complete
- Description
- Complete
- Source coverage
- Complete
- Relationship coverage
- Complete
- Review coverage
- None
- Citation coverage
- None
- Image coverage
- Complete
- Timeline coverage
- Not applicable
Scientific entity. Dimensions that cannot apply to this object are excluded rather than counted as gaps. See the evidence framework and authority dashboard.
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- Galactic dynamicsSatellite Galaxies & AccretionLinked through Large Magellanic Cloud
- Stellar physics conceptStellar Populations & ClustersLinked through The Pleiades
- Cosmology conceptDark MatterLinked through Vera Rubin
- Astrophysical objectDark Matter HaloLinked through Vera Rubin
- AstronomerEdwin HubbleLinked through Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Sources & references
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.
- ESAEuropean Space Agency
European missions, observatories, and space science imagery.
- IAUInternational Astronomical Union
Official naming, definitions, constellation boundaries, and astronomical nomenclature.