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    The Milky Way Project is a Zooniverse project whose main goal is to identify stellar-wind bubbles in the Milky Way Galaxy. Users classify sets of infrared...
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  • 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)...
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    MilkyWay@home is a volunteer computing project in the astrophysics category, running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)...
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    Milky Way Farm in Giles County, Tennessee, is the former estate of Franklin C. Mars, founder of Mars Candies. The property is named for the company's...
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    Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy (category Milky Way Subgroup)
    path, it has passed through the plane of the Milky Way several times in the past. In 2018 the Gaia project of the European Space Agency showed that Sgr dSph...
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  • 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...
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    Zone of Avoidance (category Milky Way)
    galactic plane. Many projects have attempted to bridge the gap in knowledge caused by the Zone of Avoidance. The dust and gas in the Milky Way cause extinction...
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    gravitational point of the Laniakea Supercluster of galaxies that includes the Milky Way galaxy, as well as about 100,000 other galaxies. The observed attraction...
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    bow-shock candidates. To get a larger bow-shock catalog The Milky Way Project (a Citizen Science project) aims to map infrared bow-shocks in the galactic plane...
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    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 as Messier...
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    picture to the right gives an example from one of Zooniverse's projects The Milky Way Project. The website CosmoQuest has as its goal "To create a community...
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    August 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2013. "The Milky Way Project – It-Triq ta' Sant'Anna | What is the Milky Way?". maltastro.org. Archived from the original...
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  • being discovered, and galaxies located behind the central plane of the Milky Way are extremely difficult to discern. It is possible for any galaxy to mask...
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    Galaxy (section Milky Way)
    is derived from the Greek galaxias (γαλαξίας), literally 'milky', a reference to the Milky Way galaxy that contains the Solar System. Galaxies, averaging...
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  • Milkmaid of the Milky Way is an independent adventure game for iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS. It was developed by Mattis "machineboy" Folkestad and...
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    such. 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...
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  • whipped nougat. It is similar to the global Milky Way bar as well as the American version of the Milky Way bar (only without the latter's caramel topping)...
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  • "Milky Way" is a song recorded by South Korean singer BoA from her third studio album, Atlantis Princess, released through SM Entertainment on May 30...
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  • task quality and turnaround times. The Milky Way Project is a project that aims to identify bubbles in the Milky Way with users analyzing infrared images...
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    Supercluster (LSC or LS) is the galaxy supercluster that is home to the Milky Way and approximately 100,000 other nearby galaxies. It was defined in September...
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    Retrieved May 16, 2018. Goddard, Kevin (August 24, 2018). "Stream Bas' "Milky Way" Project". HotNewHipHop. Retrieved August 24, 2018. Jahmal, Karlton (October...
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    romanized: Hḗras gala) is an ancient Greek myth and explanation of the origin of the Milky Way within the context of creation myths. The standard telling goes that the...
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    Perseus Arm (category Milky Way arms)
    the Milky Way galaxy. The second major arm is called the Scutum–Centaurus Arm. The Perseus Arm begins from the distal end of the long Milky Way central...
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    extinction correction. These are globular clusters within the halo of the Milky Way galaxy. The diameter is in minutes of arc as seen from Earth. For reference...
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  • science, and was one of the creators of The Milky Way Project, searching for stellar-wind bubbles in the Milky Way. Her work has also involved writing and...
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    Gould Belt (category Milky Way)
    The Gould Belt is a local ring of stars in the Milky Way, tilted away from the galactic plane by about 16–20 degrees, first reported by John Herschel...
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    Large Sagittarius Star Cloud (category Milky Way)
    The Large Sagittarius Star Cloud is the brightest visible region of the Milky Way galaxy, a portion of the central bulge seen around the thick dust of the...
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    Backyard Worlds (category Astronomy projects)
    Disk Detective Galaxy Zoo Old Weather Planet Hunters SETILive The Milky Way Project Radio Galaxy Zoo "NASA wants you to help find a new planet". CNN....
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  • Intergalactic travel is the hypothetical travel between galaxies. Because the Milky Way and its closest neighbors are separated by millions of light-years, any...
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  • SETILive (category Astronomy projects)
    astronomy SETI Zooniverse projects: Asteroid Zoo Backyard Worlds Disk Detective Galaxy Zoo Old Weather Planet Hunters The Milky Way Project "NOTICE: Live Data...
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