This page was produced by Rick Arendt, who would like to thank:
- All the members of the COBE/DIRBE team who have produced the beautiful
near-infrared images of the Galaxy.
- R.J. Wainscoat, et al. whose paper (1992, Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 83,
111) provides the basic geometry of the model presented here.
- Craig Kloeden for the Mac program
Rotater
which does a stunning job of displaying the galaxy model on any Macintosh
computer. (Also for the file of the nearest 500 stars.)
- Apple Computer for cool technology like QuickTime.
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of the Milky Way.