Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Milky Way Is Many Tentacled Beast
From ABC News in Science, Larry O'Hanlon's article discusses research connected to the size of the Milky Way Galaxy. The article suggests that the galaxy, instead of being a neat spiral, stretches out through a series of arms.
California Institute of Technology
Spitzer Science Center: Milky Way Aglow With Dust
This space telescope image titled "The Milky Way Center Aglow with Dust" features five separate images of the galaxy's center through infrared eyes. In addition, a detailed textual overview explains various specifics of the picture.
California Institute of Technology
Spitzer Science Center: Star Clusters in the Milky Way
Under the heading, "Star Clusters Found in the Milky Way" this site examines specific details of an image displaying various clusters of stars in the Milky Way. The text below the image highlights in detail various features of the picture.
Space Telescope Science Institute
Amazing Space: Galaxies Galore: Games and More
This is a fun and useful site to learn about galaxies. Content includes a building model to create your own Milky Way, games for learning the various types of galaxies, and more fun games.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Milky Way
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides information about the Milky Way Galaxy and Charles Messier's famous nebulae catalog.
Space Telescope Science Institute
Hubble Site: Way Out!
Can you help a cow plot a path out of the Milky Way? This hilarious space game is for all ages and is offered by HubbleSite. Users may pick their level of expertise and can choose from novice, pretty smart about space, or an astrobrainiac.
NASA
Nasa Space Place: What Is a Galaxy?
This resource explores the different types of galaxies through text and images.
Space Telescope Science Institute
Amazing Space: Galaxies
What is a galaxy? What is the name of our galaxy? Site offers answers to these questions as well as many more.
Space Telescope Science Institute
Nasa: Hubble Space Telescope: Galaxies
At this site from HubbleSite you can learn all about galaxies and black holes. Click on the movie link and discover how old the universe is or study about what happens when two galaxies collide!
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: What's the Matter in the Galaxy?
A tutorial that looks at the components within a galaxy such as gas, dust, stars and objects that orbit stars. A PDF file of the tutorial is available.
NASA
Nasa Star Child: The Milky Way
The information, geared mainly for younger viewers, provides simple and basic information about the Milky Way, and includes several embedded links to related information.
NASA
Nasa: Imagine the Universe: Got Calcium?
This site has an article on, "The Milky Way galaxy doesn't contain any milk, but it sure does have a lot of calcium. There's enough calcium floating between the stars to fortify trillions about trillions of stars."
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Ology: What Do You Know About Stars?
Test your knowledge with this ten-question quiz on stars. Focusing on stars in the Milky Way galaxy, questions range from the life cycle of a star to the number of stars in our galaxy.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Could Human Civilization Spread Across the Whole Galaxy?
Could human civilization eventually spread across the whole Milky Way galaxy? Could we move beyond our small, blue planet to establish colonies in the multitude of star systems out there? These questions are pretty daunting, but their...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Beyond the Milky Way
When we look at the night sky, we see stars and the nearby planets of our own solar system. Many of those stars are actually distant galaxies and glowing clouds of dust and gases called nebulae. The universe is an immense space with...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Cosmology: Galaxies
This site from the Cambridge Relativity provides a brief description of the structure of the Milky Way galaxy. The parts described are the disc, bulge, and halo.
NASA
Nasa: Space Place: What Is a Satellite Galaxy?
Find out about the behavior and characteristics of the many satellite galaxies that orbit other galaxies.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Answers to Exploration Questions: Galaxies
Answers to the exploration questions about galaxies can be found on this site.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Spin a Spiral Galaxy
This interactive activity from NOVA Online lets you spin a spiral galaxy, including our own Milky Way. It demonstrates that what you can learn from visible light observations of a galaxy is largely determined by the angle from which you...
Other
University of Leicester: Spiral Galaxies
Provides a general overview of spiral galaxies, including descriptions of the different classes of spiral galaxy.
NASA
Nasa: Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (Wmap): The Milky Way
Description of the three major components of the Milky Way galaxy as well as images and resources for further reading.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: What Is a Galaxy?
Explains what galaxies are and their different shapes. Includes details on the Milky Way.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Astronomy for Kids: Galaxies
Kid's learn about the science of Galaxies. Large groups of stars such as the Milky Way throughout the universe are an interesting part of astronomy.