Animated movie showing the Milky Way Galaxy (blue/white points and orange bulge) with the Sun (yellow sphere), inner1 and outer2 Sgr stream models (yellow/red points respectively), Monoceros tidal stream model3 (violet points), and observed Triangulum-Andromeda structure4 (green points). The Milky Way model is designed to resemble current concepts of Galactic structure, but is shown for artistic purposes only.
Note- This movie is in Apple-Quicktime format and may not be viewable on some systems. Non-embedded quicktime file can be found here, there is also a lower-quality MPG version available.
1: Law, D.R., Johnston, K.V., and Majewski, S.R. 2004, ApJ accepted
2: Pakzad, S.L., Majewski, S.R., Frinchaboy, P.M., Hummels, C.B., Ivezic, Z., Johnston, K.V., Law, D.R.,
Patterson, R.J., Prada, F., and Skrutskie, M.F. 2005. AAS Meeting 205
3: Crane, J.D., Majewski, S.R., Rocha-Pinto, H.J., Frinchaboy, P.M., Skrutskie, M.F., and
Law, D.R. 2003, ApJL, 594, 119
4: H. Rocha-Pinto: private comm.