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Milky Way galaxy in Elite Dangerous

Elite Dangerous has a 1:1 scale simulation of the Milky Way galaxy based on real-life scientific principles, data and theories. It is a barred spiral galaxy with around 400 billion star systems.^[1] The known systems like Sol are modeled on galactic charts. Planets and moons rotate and orbit with 1:1 scale in real-time, thus constantly changing the environment. At the center is the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*.^[1] The galaxy is divided into 42 Galactic Regions.

Overview

Elite Dangerous features an immersive, evolving galaxy with dynamic star systems, economies, governments, and territory control via Powerplay. Commanders can influence the overarching narrative via community goals, squadrons, and supporting a Power to reshape star systems, regions and the galaxy. These actions are processed via the background simulation.

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Terrestrial planet and a brown dwarf

The vast 1:1 scale Milky Way galaxy is based on real scientific principles, scientific data, star catalogues and theories. It is created using a mix of procedural generation and artist direction. It has realistic astrophysics and scale.
Around 400 billion star systems according to current scientific theories of star system formation with planets and moons that orbit and rotate.^[2]^[3] It includes well known systems like Sol and Alpha Centauri. Some systems have multiple stars.
Groundbreaking in that it is based on a lot of hard science with all sorts of star surveys that are fixed and merged to for the first time in gaming history compose a very consistent model of the Milky Way and it is rich enough to plot the night sky.^[4]
Cosmic phenomena, different kinds of stars, star systems, black holes including Sagittarius A*, detailed planets, moons, mountains, canyons, craters, planetary ring systems, star rise etc.
Specially handcrafted overrides for 160,000 known stars in the night sky and planetary objects that we know and love. For example, our solar system Sol with Earth, the Moon and Mars. There are systems with recently discovered planets such as Trappist-1.
Planetary bodies have a huge variety of atmospheric visuals based on their composition, Raleigh scattering and Mie scattering.^[5]
Alien species such as Fumerola, Electricae and Bulb Molluscs.
Minerals and metals can be extracted from asteroids by miners in planetary rings and on a planetary surface.
141 nebula in the Milky Way.
Star Clusters with rich survey data opportunities.
32 other galaxies are visible from the Milky Way.
Several sapient species are spread in the Milky Way. The most notable are Humans, Thargoids and Guardians.
42 Galactic Regions, 9 major galactic arms and the Galactic Plane.
Constellations can be seen from Sol.

Milky Way

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Milky Way panorama 1500ly above the galactic plane

The Milky Way is around 13.6 billion years old.^[1] It is 105,700 light-years across and weighs 1.5 trillion solar masses.^[1] The name Milky Way is derived from the ancient Greeks and Romans.^[1] They thought the galactic plane resembled a river of milk.^[1] Greek myth says the goddess Hera spilled milk across the sky. The Roman myth says the milk was from the goddess Ops (or Juno).^[1]

Elite Dangerous allows players to travel to almost every visible star from normal space. The constellations change with parallax as you explore the galaxy, and the night sky viewed from Earth is accurate.^[6] Some star systems and regions require permits to access. Certain star system clusters are permit locked for future content.

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Planet with city lights and a ring system.

During development Frontier gathered as much information as they could about the 160,000 known star systems of our galaxy.^[6] We know the temperature, size and metallicity (the periodic elements that make up the star's composition) of those stars. We also know the mass distribution of the Milky Way.^[6] The uniquely custom built, Stellar Forge takes that information, rolls time backwards toward the Big Bang, and simulates from there the composition of hundreds of thousands of celestial bodies using the first principles that astrophysicists believe govern our universe. It uses the nebula hypothesis to simulate the composition and orbit of all the undiscovered stars, exoplanets, moons and black holes in our Milky Way.^[6] We end up with a huge amount of technical information about each star and its planets, moons and asteroid fields, such as temperature, chemical composition and orbit.^[6]

This delivers both an incredibly accurate and beautiful cosmic ballet, with correct motions of the celestial bodies, and it's the foundation for the various economies of each star system in ED.^[6]

Newly discovered and notable star systems have been added such as Trappist-1 in 2017.^[7] Prior to it's discovery on 22 February 2017, the Stellar Forge coincidentally generated a system with similar characteristics in nearly the same location: Core Sys Sector XU-P A5-0. Frontier updated this system and renamed it Trappist-1 with ED: Horizons update 2.3.

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Galaxy lighting update

The Operations Update improved the Stellar Lighting of the galaxy on 30 June 2026.^[8] The galactic background colouring was adjusted for better visuals.^[8] Fdev used real world reference images to rebalance the Galactic background lighting.^[8]

You can have a clear view of the galactic plane by traveling to systems that are far above or below it. The galactic centre is one million times denser with stars than Sol.

Mandalay and galactic plane

Mandalay and galactic plane
Mandalay and ELW in galactic center

Mandalay and ELW in galactic center
Nomad and galaxy lighting update

Nomad and galaxy lighting update
Caspian and Galaxy 1500 ly below Colonia

Caspian and Galaxy 1500 ly below Colonia
Nomad SLV and planet sky

Nomad SLV and planet sky

Galaxy Map

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Galaxy Map in 3300 (2015)

The Galaxy Map is used to navigate the Milky Way. The System Map displays a system's layout and important details. Any discovered celestial and system information is documented on the System Map.

ED uses a Cartesian variant of the Galactic coordinate system. It is visible in the GalMap grid and from exploration journal files. The origin point is Sol at 0 / 0 / 0. The axes point to the Galactic East ("right", y-axis), Galactic North ("up", towards the constellation of Coma / ~31 Comae Berenices, z-axis), and Galactic Center (~Sag A*, x-axis) respectively.

Planets

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Earth and a Cobra

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Methane atmosphere

In 2015, the Planetary Landings update extended the original galactic simulation from outer space to a 1:1 planetary scale. Frontier's Stellar Forge takes into account the factors that govern the formation of planets, from the basic chemical composition, size, neighbouring moons and tectonic activity.^[6] ED: Odyssey added the On Foot first person scale and atmospheric landing on planetary objects with tenuous atmospheres in 2021.

Atmospheres of planetary objects have different colours based on their primary composition, Raleigh scattering and Mie scattering. Raleigh scattering for light refraction based on the star light's wavelength and planet atmosphere density. Mie scattering for light absorption based on atmosphere elements and composition. This simulates a huge variety of atmospheric visuals.^[5]

The planets and planetary ring systems rotate in real time. The moons (planetary satellites) orbit planets. The planets and gas giants generally orbit a star in the center of a system. Sometimes 2 planets orbit each other. Some systems have binary stars, a neutron star or a black hole.

The Stellar Forge simulates the compression of tectonic plates, so that Frontier's developers can see where they'd move together and move apart. That creates areas where ridges are formed, mountains, canyons or trenches.^[6]

The Stellar Forge also simulates impact craters, volcanism and ageing. The minerals and elements making up a planet determine its appearance and colors.^[6]

You can seamlessly approach and land anywhere on a 1:1 scale planet to explore every square meter of terrain first-hand. You can either fly your ship close to the mountains and in the canyons, or land and drive the SRV.^[6]

The simulation feeds directly into the gameplay such as resources collect and synthesize, surface ports for trade, Points of Interest to explore and fortified settlements to defend or defeat.^[6]

Nebulae

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Veil Nebula West and a Type-9

There are 141 documented nebulae in the Milky Way and 32 external galaxies. These are all present in-game. The distances range from 380 light years from Sol to the Pleiades Nebula or up to 27,900 light years to the G2 dust cloud.

Core Systems

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"The Bubble" is where powers compete for influence, resources, territory and control.

The Core Systems (aka The Bubble), is a sphere of about 150 light years around Sol where powers compete for influence, resources, territory and control. The territory volume is about 13.8 million cubic light years, and encompasses over 20,000 inhabited systems with over 66,000 stations, starports and outposts.

Major hubs of human expansion outside the Core Systems are the Pleiades Nebula and Colonia Region. Occasional Asteroid Bases and settlements may be found in deep space.

Colonisation

Main article: System Colonisation

Human inhabited space has quickly expanded since the start of player-led system colonisation on 13 March 3311 (2025).^[9] By 16 Feb 3312 (2026) there are 101,862 colonised systems, 175,973 facilities built on planets, and 307,014 facilities built in space.^[10]

System Colonisation Map Jan 2026

System Colonisation Map Jan 2026
Human Inhabited Space in Elite 2026

Human Inhabited Space in Elite 2026

Population

As of January 1, 3312, the galaxy's total human population (based on system population data) is 10,170,147,010,813 (10.1 trillion people). The galaxy's total commodities market stock in tonnes is 932,024,185,180.^[11]^[12] Most humans live in star systems with stations and settlements in the Core Systems and Colonia.

Aliens

There are a few sapient alien species. The insectoid Thargoids are several millions of years old.^[13] There are Ancient Ruins of the extinct humanoid Guardians. They created the robotic Constructs 1 to 2 million years ago.^[14] There are other non-sapient species in the lore of the Elite series, but they have not been found in ED. There are many types of alien flora on planetary bodies.

Hard Science

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Taipan in a Planetary Ring

Elite Dangerous is groundbreaking in that the galaxy's structure is based on hard science. Numerous star surveys were used to plot real stars in the night sky and to help compose a consist model of the Milky Way.

During a keynote presentation at Nordic Game 2014 David Braben said, "We've taken a lot of hard science to compose the galaxy so everybody that's in all sorts of star surveys we've merged with fixed errors in the star surveys and so in one place, possibly for the first time we've got a very consistent model of the galaxy and it's rich enough that we can plot the night sky. But when we plotted the night sky as viewed from Earth it's really bright and it actually doesn't look right. So what we've then done is we've tuned the dust so that it actually matches the night sky when viewed from Earth. What's interesting is there is way more dust than most scientific theories say there should be. But we can tell by just wandering outside on a clear day and looking know that's what it should be so we are actually looking at that from sort of first principles. There really is a lot of dust, but the great thing from a game point of view is it actually makes the night sky very interesting. So you don't need to fly very far in game terms from Earth for the night sky to change quite dramatically. So for those who've played it we've actually put in most of the earth centric constellations in the sky, but when you travel a little away they all distort, but more important we are bang in the middle of this dust. So your night sky is quite dark, but if you go say a hundred light years directly out of the galactic plane it’s a bit like poking up. When you're on a plane taking off from an airport, you get that amazing view when you come out of the clouds looking out of the window and you suddenly see right across. That's what it's like and some of the systems, Achenar for example is the center of the Empire and a giant system which is actually out of the galactic plane so you can see across to the galaxy just a little bit it's just wonderful."^[4]

Exploration

Main article: Explorer

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Galactic regions

The Codex has a Discoveries section and a galaxy map which consists of 42 regions. Each galactic region has information detailing the stellar bodies, geological/biological entities and civilisation contained there. Within each system are a variety of novelties to discover as an explorer or exobiologist. For example stars, terrestrial planets, species, gas giants, Points of Interest etc.^[15]

As of March 2, 2018, Commanders discovered 112,863,791 unique star systems, which is only 0.028% of the systems in the galaxy.^[16] Over 20,262,978,541 light-years had been traversed via hyperspace since Elite Dangerous was released.^[17]
As of February 26, 2019, only 0.036% of the galaxy had been explored.^[18]
As of December 16, 2019, only 0.042% of the galaxy had been explored.^[12]
As of January 20, 2022, only 0.05% of the galaxy, or exactly 222,083,678 unique star systems, had been explored.^[19]
As of January 10, 2023, only 0.059% of the galaxy or exactly 236,219,997 unique star systems, had been explored.^[20]
As of February 28, 2024, only 0.06% of the galaxy (no specific number of systems has been given) had been explored.^[21]
As of October 2, 2025, only 0.0653% of the galaxy or exactly 261,063,785 unique star systems, had been explored^[22]

According to EDSM (Elite Dangerous Star Map) as of 20 June 2026:

0.024332% of the galaxy has been discovered on EDSM, it will take 45,190 years and 11 days to discover it entirely.^[23]
Current known galactic population: 17,293,830,831,332.^[23]
Current commodities stock in galactic market: 1,676,295,592,689 t.^[23]

File:Distant Worlds 3 Science Summary - You're still here? Go home, it's over.

Exploration saturation

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Galaxy exploration saturation map 2026

The saturation map by ED Astrometrics shows the Core Systems and the galaxy's edge are mostly explored (red and light blue). The core regions are the least explored (dark blue and black). This is because the edge has a low star density, while the core has a very high density. There are major differences between the dense galactic core and sparse outer edge.

Outer Edge

The star density in the galactic edge is very low. There are vast, empty voids of black space with rare, isolated systems. Thus individual star systems can be separated by long gaps of 40 to over 80 light-years. The spiral arms dwindle into the void of space. This requires a specialized high-jump-range exploration ship with an engineered FSD and premium synthesis materials to cross the Abyss gaps.

Galactic Disk

The galactic disk is the flat region that extends outward from the dense central bulge (center) to the sparse outer edge. The vast majority of star systems are located there including Sol. The spiral arms with lots of stars, gas and dust. The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, because the spiral arms are attached to the central bar of stars in the core. The 2 major spiral arms are the Scutum-Centaurus Arm (Inner Scutum-Centaurus Arm and Outer Scutum-Centaurus Arm), and the Perseus Arm. Minor-arms are the Orion-Cygnus Arm, Sagittarius-Carina Arm, Outer Arm and Norma Arm. The Sol system, including Earth, reside in the Orion-Cygnus Arm.

Central Bulge

The star density in the central bulge (galactic center) reaches extreme levels of tightly packed high-density areas (star cubes). The systems can be fractions of a light-year apart. There are thousands to millions of nearby stars. This causes severe performance loads on the in-game route-planner. The core has a high concentration of luminous B-type stars, Herbig Ae/Be stars, and surrounds Sagittarius A*.

Traffic

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Galactic Traffic Report April 3303

EDSM made traffic report videos which show ship movement and exploration in the galaxy. It's based on data taken from EDSM flight logs. ED-Board made an Elite Dangerous Heatmap timelapse generated from the edsm.net database (systems data submitted by E:D players) to show progress of the Milky Way exploration.

Expeditions

Player groups and squadrons organize long-range expeditions into uncharted space with hundreds to thousands of other pilots.

Circumnavigation of the galaxy

Hanekura Shizuka decided to see just how long a circumnavigation of the galaxy would take. He started at the Witch Head Science Center to its finish at Achrende. It went pretty fast. He started at 18:55:00 on May 23, 3304, and finished at 08:11:13 on May 31. Total time to circumnavigate the galaxy was: 7 days, 13 hours, 16 minutes, 13 seconds.^[24]^[25]

Brown dwarf layer

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Asp Explorer and Brown Dwarf

There is a layer of systems throughout the galaxy with a very high density of brown dwarf stars. The layer is located approximately on the galactic plane. This represents a hazard for explorers to navigate, because there are very few scoopable stars.

Online

The online galaxy of Elite Dangerous is a shared universe maintained by a central server. All of the meta data for the galaxy is shared between players on all platforms. This includes the galaxy itself as well as transient information like economies. A player's actions could influence the development of the galaxy, without necessarily having to play multiplayer.

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Sinuous Tubers on a planet

The developers can seed the galaxy with events. These events are often triggered by player actions. The living and breathing galaxy lets players discover novel and intriguing content long after they started playing.

The game features a shared persistent galaxy server, where macro effects and events such as economy, society and conflict status are recorded.

Powerplay is an ongoing battle for interstellar conquest and control in the galaxy. Powers are powerful individuals and organizations which players can pledge allegiance to help guide their strategy, and take on special objectives to advance shared goals. Player choices and actions have a direct and visible impact on the balance of galactic power.

The server transparently creates free roaming sessions (instances) when players and NPCs meet up within the galaxy based on a perception bubble around you which is defined by your scanner/visual range. Thus those instances are not a fixed location in space as most other MMOs, but they dynamically move around. The effects of those instances are then stored on the central galaxy server and shared by everybody.

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SRV Scarab on a planet with anemones

ED features high speed twitch combat and detailed damage models so the aforementioned method is the most reliable way to do it. There can be many sessions within 1 star system. Those sessions can dynamically move around many light years. ED's 1:1 scale Milky Way, means sessions are typically spread out much further. However, the lion's share of player activity is within the Core Systems.

Persistent Data

Every week the servers go offline to allow the Galaxy's persistent data to update:^[26]

Star System & Station/Outpost ruling minor factions, alignment, and available commodities & services
Powerplay Control/Exploited Systems
Addition of new Community Goals

The update usually takes between 30 and 60 minutes, during this time you cannot login to the Milky Way.

Lore

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Coriolis station

The lore has expanded a lot since ED launched in 2014. Important events are covered by GalNet. The official Elite Dangerous Role Playing Game has in-depth lore about the fictional universe. Here's a summary:

Cheap and faster than light travel has enabled humanity to expand across the stars. They've built colonies, cities, stations and empires. This led to the rise of galactic superpowers: the Federation, Empire and Alliance. The galaxy's vast wealth of minerals, water and life-bearing planets makes them wealthier every day. Such wealth of the major factions attracts powerful people who scheme daily to gain power.^[27]

The middle-classes can afford spaceships like cars in the 20th century. This gives them tremendous freedom. Space trade is seldom hampered by politics. Pilots are encouraged to do all kinds of jobs such as supplying stations. Little has changed for those in the bottom of society since the old-Earth's dark ages. The planet-spanning mega corporations employ entire nations and rule unchecked over vast sections of the galaxy. Weapons are readily available and people are inclined to shoot first. The general lawlessness of space, inequality, greed of the galactic elite, navigational hazards and fierce creatures on planets make it a dangerous galaxy.^[27]

Other galaxies

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Visible Galaxies below Andromeda

Local Group

The Milky Way is located inside the Local Group which is 10 million light-years across.^[1] There are over 50 galaxies in this group bound together by gravity. The gravitational center is between the Milky Way and Andromeda.^[1] The biggest galaxy in the Local Group is Andromeda with a diameter of 220,000 light-years.^[1] The Milky Way is the second largest with 105,700 light-years.^[1]

Visible galaxies

A total of 32 galaxies are identified by CMDR Dr. Kaii (including dwarf and irregular galaxies). The nearest galaxy is the Large Magellanic Cloud at 158,200 light years. The furthest is NGC 6703 at 106 million light years.^[28] You cannot travel to these galaxies. This table gives an overview of the visible galaxies.

Name	Other Designations	Type	Number of Stars*	Direction	Distance (ly)**
Large Magellanic Cloud	Nubecula Major	Irr	20 billion	Towards the Magellanic Clouds	158,200
Small Magellanic Cloud	Nubecula Minor / NGC 292	Irr	3 billion	Towards the Magellanic Clouds	199,000
Ursa Minor Dwarf³		E5	7 million	West Up	200,000
Sextans Dwarf	Sextans I	E4	25 million	East Up	290,000
Sculptor Dwarf	ESO 351-30	E0	50 million	Towards the Magellanic Clouds	290,000
Carina Dwarf		E3	35 million	Towards the Magellanic Clouds	330,000
Fornax Dwarf		E4	130 million	Towards the Magellanic Clouds	460,000
Leo II	DDO 93	E0	90 million	East Up	690,000
Leo I	DDO 74	E3	40 million	East Up	820,000
NGC 6822	IC 4895 / MCG -2-50-6 / DDO 209	Irr	700 million	North Down	1,600,000
IC 10	UGC 192 / MCG 192 / IRAS 177+5900	Irr	160 million	Above Andromeda	2,200,000
IC 1613	UGC 668 / MCG 0-3-70 / DDO 8	Irr	2 billion	Below Andromeda	2,380,000
Andromeda I	KK 8	E0	70 Million	Below Andromeda	2,400,000
Andromeda III	KK 5	E6	8 Million	Below Andromeda	2,440,000
M32	NCG 221 / UGC 452 / MCG 7-2-15	E2	1 billion	Below Andromeda	2,490,000
Andromeda	M 31 / NGC 224 / UGC 454 / MCG 7-2-16	Sb	***1 trillion	Below Andromeda	2,500,000
Cassiopeia 1	KK 19	Irr	6 billion	Above Andromeda	2,550,000
NGC 147 & NGC 185****		E5 / E3	1 billion	Above Andromeda	2,580,000
Leo A	DDO 69	Irr	40 million	East Up	2,600,000
Triangulum	M 33 / NGC 598 / UGC 1117 / MCG 5-4-69	Sc	***40 billion	Below Andromeda	3,000,000
Pegasus Dwarf	DDO 216	dIrr	50 million	Below Andromeda	3,000,000
WLM	Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte / DDO 221	Irr	830 million	Directly Down	3,000,000
Aquarius Dwarf	DDO 210	Irr	8 million	North Down	3,200,000
Sagittarius DIG	ESO 594-4	Irr	40 million	North Down	3,390,000
Antlia Dwarf	PGC 29194	E3	50 million	East Up	4,000,000
NGC 3109	ESO 499-36 / MCG -4-24-13 / UGCA 194	Sb	15 billion	East Up	4,300,000
Sextans A	DDO 75	Irr	570 million	East Up	4,310,000
IC 5152	ESO 237-27 / AM 2159-513 / IRAS 21594-5132	Irr	1 billion	Towards the Magellanic Clouds	5,800,000
Andromeda IV		Irr	600 million	Below Andromeda	6,100,000
NGC 404	UGC 718 / MCG 6-3-18 / ZWG 520.20	S0	900 million	Below Andromeda	10,000,000
NGC 6946²	UGC 11597 / MCG 10-29-6 / ZWG 304.6	SBc	100 billion	West Up	22,000,000
NGC 6952¹	NGC 6951 / UGC 11604 / MCG 11-25-2	SBc	170 billion	West Up	74,000,000
IC 1502³	UGC 12706 / UGC 12105 / MCG 13-1-2	Sa	7 billion	West Up	82,000,000
NGC 5985¹	UGC 9969 / MCG 10-22-30 / ZWG 297.25	SBb	1 trillion	West Up	100,000,000
NGC 6703²	UGC 11356 / MCG 8-34-20 / ZWG 255.14	S0	110 billion	West Up	106,000,000

*Taken from Space Engine (not reliable, but probably good estimates) **Almost all distances are taken from Wikipedia. A few distances are based on papers or astronomy sites via Wikipedia. Physically paired galaxies¹Only one (or neither) of these is correct²Only one (or neither) of these is correct³Only one (or neither) of these is correct.

Videos

Gallery

Milky Way galaxy in Elite Dangerous

Milky Way galaxy in Elite Dangerous
Terrestrial planet and a brown dwarf.

Terrestrial planet and a brown dwarf.
Planet with city lights and a ring system.

Planet with city lights and a ring system.
Terrestrial planet and a Cobra

Terrestrial planet and a Cobra
Gas Giant SRV and Asp

Gas Giant SRV and Asp
Nebula and SRV.

Nebula and SRV.
The bubble is where powers compete for influence, resources, territory and control.

The bubble is where powers compete for influence, resources, territory and control.
Gas giant with a ring system and SRV.

Gas giant with a ring system and SRV.
Galactic Traffic Report April 3303

Galactic Traffic Report April 3303
Visible Galaxies below Andromeda.

Visible Galaxies below Andromeda.
Visible Galaxies Towards Magellanic Clouds

Visible Galaxies Towards Magellanic Clouds
Visible Galaxies West up

Visible Galaxies West up
Visible Galaxies East Up

Visible Galaxies East Up
Visible Galaxies Above Andromeda

Visible Galaxies Above Andromeda
Visible Galaxies North Down

Visible Galaxies North Down
Visible Galaxies Directly Down

Visible Galaxies Directly Down
Elite Dangerous Galaxy regions

Elite Dangerous Galaxy regions
Universal Cartographics Poster

Universal Cartographics Poster
Mandalay and Galactic Plane

Mandalay and Galactic Plane
Mandalay and ELW in Galactic Center

Mandalay and ELW in Galactic Center

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