• Thumbnail for Milky Way
    The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the...
    216 KB (21,677 words) - 08:51, 7 October 2024
  • Milky Way is a brand of chocolate-covered confectionery bar manufactured and marketed by Mars, Incorporated. There are two varieties: the US Milky Way...
    14 KB (1,559 words) - 16:35, 1 October 2024
  • The Andromeda–Milky Way collision is a galactic collision predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years between the two largest galaxies in the Local...
    17 KB (1,907 words) - 03:43, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Milky Way (mythology)
    about the origin of the Milky Way, the crowd of stars that makes a distinctive bright streak across the night sky. Ancient Armenian mythology called the Milky...
    25 KB (2,953 words) - 20:53, 28 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Galactic Center
    The Galactic Center is the barycenter of the Milky Way and a corresponding point on the rotational axis of the galaxy. Its central massive object is a...
    48 KB (4,922 words) - 23:59, 17 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sagittarius A*
    SADGE-AY-star), is the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center of the Milky Way. Viewed from Earth, it is located near the border of the constellations...
    73 KB (7,650 words) - 11:28, 30 September 2024
  • The Milky Way has several smaller galaxies gravitationally bound to it, as part of the Milky Way subgroup, which is part of the local galaxy cluster,...
    23 KB (1,746 words) - 02:37, 20 September 2024
  • "Under the Milky Way" is a single by Australian alternative rock band the Church, released on 15 February 1988, and appears on their fifth studio album...
    25 KB (2,186 words) - 10:49, 25 February 2024
  • up Milky Way in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains the Solar System. Milky Way may also refer to: Milky Way (Antarctica)...
    2 KB (344 words) - 15:24, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Andromeda Galaxy
    The Andromeda Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy and is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. It was originally named the Andromeda Nebula and is cataloged...
    110 KB (10,778 words) - 21:17, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Origin of the Milky Way
    The Origin of the Milky Way is a painting by the Italian late Renaissance master Jacopo Tintoretto, in the National Gallery, London, formerly in the Orleans...
    3 KB (167 words) - 19:47, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Galaxy
    Galaxy (section Milky Way)
    by gravity. The word is derived from the Greek galaxias (γαλαξίας), literally 'milky', a reference to the Milky Way galaxy that contains the Solar System...
    159 KB (15,968 words) - 15:08, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Birth of the Milky Way
    The Birth of the Milky Way, also sometimes known as The Origin of the Milky Way, is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens,...
    4 KB (265 words) - 03:36, 10 July 2024
  • The Milky Way (French: La Voie lactée) is a 1969 surrealist comedy-drama film directed by Luis Buñuel. It stars Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Denis...
    14 KB (1,617 words) - 17:08, 10 October 2024
  • or 0.0265 million light years from the galactic center (the center of the Milky Way). The distance of Earth from the galaxy which contains it is of course...
    135 KB (6,889 words) - 02:34, 20 September 2024
  • Origin of the Milky Way may refer to: Formation of galaxies The Origin of the Milky Way (Tintoretto) The Origin of the Milky Way (Rubens) This disambiguation...
    174 bytes (60 words) - 14:07, 7 July 2019
  • Mighty Milky Way is an action puzzle video game for the Nintendo DSi. It was the second title after Mighty Flip Champs! in the Mighty series from WayForward...
    10 KB (965 words) - 12:43, 5 October 2024
  • Sundome!! Milky Way (Japanese: すんどめ!! ミルキーウェイ, Hepburn: Sundome!! Mirukīu Ei) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazuki Funatsu. It...
    18 KB (1,074 words) - 22:08, 23 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Supermassive black hole
    the Event Horizon Telescope: the black hole in the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 and the black hole at the Milky Way’s center (Sagittarius A*). Supermassive...
    104 KB (11,046 words) - 00:11, 24 September 2024
  • Milky Way is the third studio album by American rapper Bas. It was released on August 24, 2018, by Dreamville Records and Interscope Records. The album...
    18 KB (1,481 words) - 23:37, 1 March 2024
  • Walking on the Milky Way can refer to: Walking on the Milky Way (album), album by Franciscus Henri Walking on the Milky Way (song), song by Orchestral...
    242 bytes (67 words) - 02:30, 10 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Gamma-ray burst
    outside the Milky Way galaxy, although a related class of phenomena, soft gamma repeaters, are associated with magnetars within the Milky Way. It has...
    119 KB (12,984 words) - 21:35, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of globular clusters
    clusters. The apparent magnitude does not include an extinction correction. These are globular clusters within the halo of the Milky Way galaxy. The diameter...
    87 KB (2,736 words) - 06:34, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sun
    Sun (redirect from The sun)
    about 85% of the stars in the Milky Way, most of which are red dwarfs. It is more massive than 95% of nearby stars within 7 pc. (~23lt yrs) The Sun is a Population...
    167 KB (18,921 words) - 14:31, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Large Magellanic Cloud
    The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a dwarf galaxy and satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At a distance of around 50 kiloparsecs (163,000 light-years)...
    33 KB (3,572 words) - 21:23, 10 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Camino de Santiago
    At night, the Milky Way overhead seems to point the way, so the route acquired the nickname "Voie lactée" – the Milky Way in French. The scallop shell...
    55 KB (5,692 words) - 13:15, 3 October 2024
  • Milkmaid of the Milky Way is an independent adventure game for iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS. It was developed by Mattis "machineboy" Folkestad and...
    10 KB (860 words) - 21:09, 1 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Spiral galaxy
    over two-thirds of the galaxies in the visible universe (Hubble volume) have bars. The Milky Way is a barred spiral, although the bar itself is difficult...
    30 KB (3,630 words) - 23:48, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Supernova
    galaxies suggest they occur in the Milky Way on average about three times every century. A supernova in the Milky Way would almost certainly be observable...
    201 KB (21,932 words) - 21:56, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Attractor
    includes the Milky Way galaxy, as well as about 100,000 other galaxies. The observed attraction suggests a localized concentration of mass having the order...
    12 KB (1,550 words) - 03:35, 5 September 2024