Is there an actual photo of the Milky Way galaxy?
It takes 250 million years for our Sun and the solar system to go all the way around the center of the Milky Way. We can only take pictures of the Milky Way from inside the galaxy, which means we don’t have an image of the Milky Way as a whole.
Do we have real pictures of Andromeda?
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced the largest and sharpest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy (M31). “Moving out from this central galactic bulge, the panorama sweeps from the galaxy’s central bulge across lanes of stars and dust to the sparser outer disk.”
Will we ever visit Andromeda galaxy?
Highly unlikely. Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away. Even if we managed to build a ship that could go 99.9999999999999\% the speed of light, it’ll take 2.5 million years to get there.
Can you see Andromeda right now?
Bottom line: The neighboring Andromeda galaxy – nearest large spiral galaxy to our Milky Way – will be visible on dark, moonless evenings from now until the beginning of northern spring.
Where is Earth in the Milky Way galaxy?
The Milky Way is a large spiral galaxy. Earth is located in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way (called the Orion Arm) which lies about two-thirds of the way out from the center of the Galaxy.
What is the largest galaxy in the universe?
IC 1101
The biggest known galaxy is IC 1101, which is 50 times the Milky Way’s size and about 2,000 times more massive. It is about 5.5 million light-years across. Nebulas, or vast clouds of gas, also have impressively large sizes.
Are Hubble photos real?
TLDR: Yes, Hubble images are real. This series of posts is dedicated to the scrutiny of Hubble imagery and a broader discussion of the veracity of astronomical imagery.
Will humans ever leave the Milky Way?
So, to leave our Galaxy, we would have to travel about 500 light-years vertically, or about 25,000 light-years away from the galactic centre. We’d need to go much further to escape the ‘halo’ of diffuse gas, old stars and globular clusters that surrounds the Milky Way’s stellar disk.
How old is our galaxy?
13.51 billion years
Milky Way/Age
Astronomers believe the Milky Way is about 13.6 billion years old — only 200 million years younger than the universe. The galaxy’s evolution began when clouds of gas and dust started collapsing, pushed together by gravity.
Can you see the Milky Way from Earth without a telescope?
If someone unfamiliar with it sees a picture of the milky way without a terrestrial reference point, they might assume it was taken with a telescope. But the scale of the milky way is huge! You don’t need a telescope to see or photograph it.