This repository contains python scripts for plotting sources on the top-down schematic of the Milky Way. The resultant plot is shown as follows.
Caption: Figure Top-down schematic of the Milky Way (artist’s concept, R. Hurt: NASA/JPL- Caltech/SSC).
The spiral arms are indicated using numbers from 1 to 6, referring to the Outer, Perseus, Local,
Carina-Sagittarius, Scutum-Centaurus, and Norma arms.