Milky Way (Subscribe)
Links
What is the Milky Way Called in Different Languages?
http://stoivane.iki.fi/milkyway/
A list of the names given to the Milky Way in various languages.
The Milky Way Galaxy: Our Home
http://www.windows2universe.org/the_universe/Milkyway.html
A brief illustrated definition of the Milky Way.
The Milky Way Galaxy
http://www.seds.org/messier/more/mw.html
Provides information on our galaxy, with links and references.
The Milky Way Galaxy
http://casswww.ucsd.edu/public/tutorial/MW.html
Illustrated and technical overview of the structure and composition.
The Milky Way
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101mw.html
A short definition of the Milky Way's components and composition.
Scientific American: Our Growing, Breathing Galaxy
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=our-growing-breathing-gal
Detailed historical information and new discoveries about our galaxy.
Multiwavelength Milky Way
Technical overview of various frequency scans of the galaxy, with images and data files, from NASA's Astrophysics Data Facility.
Milky Way Could Hold Remnants of Last Galactic 'Meal'
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/01/08/milky.way.meal/
Some celestial detective work strongly suggests that the Milky Way consumed a smaller galaxy billions of years ago.
Milky Way
http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast122/lectures/lec25.html
Provides images of our galaxy taken at different wavelengths, and discusses how the mapping of variable stars, neutral hydrogen radio maps and star clusters gives us a view of the shape of the galaxy.
Max-Planck-Institut fr extraterrestrische Physik - Galactic Center Research
The research team, observations, results, publications, image gallery, and related links.
APOD: Milky Way
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/milky_way.html
NASA's "Astronomy Picture of the Day" index to Milky Way images.