Milky Way 3D Model
Interactive 3D-style canvas simulation: Milky Way 3D Model.
Disk diameter~30 kpc
Sun — galactocentric8.2 kpc
Dark-matter halor ≈ 20 kpc+
Schematic barred-spiral model: logarithmic arms, central bulge, thin dusty disk and a spherical dark-matter halo wireframe. ☉ marks our Sun on the Orion spur, ~8.2 kpc from the centre.
Concepts in this lab
spiral armsgalactic diskdark matter halo
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