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The main galaxy map is designed to be displayed on relatively low resolution monitors and can be zoomed into four levels of detail. For visitors to this site who want larger maps, a couple of options are available.

This 1280x1024 overview map shows all the objects on the main galaxy map with the exception of some smaller star clusters. In addition, it shows the main clouds of non-ionised hydrogen gas in the region.

It is hard to get a sense of location in a map that shows thousands of unfamiliar objects. To see the major structures in this area of the Milky Way, you can view this 1280x1024 fantasy map. This shows the basic structures of our local region of the galaxy in more familiar planetary terms as gulfs, bays, straits, islands and so on.

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This garden universe vibrates complete.
Some we get a sound so sweet.
Vibrations reach on up to become light,
And then through gamma, out of sight.
Between the eyes and ears there lay,
The sounds of colour and the light of a sigh.
And to hear the sun, what a thing to believe.
But it's all around if we could but perceive.
To know ultraviolet, infrared and X-rays,
Beauty to find in so many ways.

Moody Blues,
In Search Of The Lost Chord