Description:
This resource covers the nature and components of the Milky Way, including the disk, spiral arms, nucleus, dark matter halo, globular clusters, and central bulge; the interstellar medium, including gas, dust, HI and HII regions, and the distribution of Aluminum-26; stellar populations; rotation of the galaxy; the spiral arms and their formation; and the nucleus of the galaxy. There is an animation illustrating the appearance of the M81 galaxy at different wavelengths.
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