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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Zone of Avoidance (category Milky Way)
to the 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...
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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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Mighty Milky Way was 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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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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Great Attractor (redirect from The 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...
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Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy (category Milky Way Subgroup)
spiraling 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...
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Citizen science (section Around the world)
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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Andromeda Galaxy (redirect from The 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...
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Bow shock (section Around the Earth)
get a larger bow-shock catalog The Milky Way Project (a Citizen Science project) aims to map infrared bow-shocks in the galactic plane. This larger catalog...
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Backyard Worlds (category Astronomy projects)
Zoo 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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List of nearest galaxies (redirect from List of satellites of the Milky Way)
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...
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Astropulse (category Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing projects)
microsecond), allowing detection of sources almost anywhere within the Milky Way. Project proponents believe that Astropulse will either detect exploding...
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Saint Anne (redirect from The wife of Imran)
Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2013. "The Milky Way Project – It-Triq ta' Sant'Anna | What is the Milky Way?". maltastro...
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Grace Wolf-Chase (category Fellows of the American Astronomical Society)
citizen 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...
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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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Camino de Santiago (redirect from The Way of St James)
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...
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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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word for 'Milky Way' and 'galaxy' both is γαλαξίας, literally meaning "milky", derived from γάλα, which means milk, and is itself from the Proto-Indo-European...
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SETILive (category Astronomy projects)
Backyard Worlds Disk Detective Galaxy Zoo Old Weather Planet Hunters The Milky Way Project "NOTICE: Live Data Ending Oct 12". Retrieved 28 October 2014. "SETI...
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Perseus Arm (category Milky Way arms)
The Perseus Arm is one of two major spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy. The second major arm is called the Scutum–Centaurus Arm. The Perseus Arm begins...
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The system supports automated quality assurance and provides service-level agreements for task quality and turnaround times. The Milky Way Project is...
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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 and...
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Education". Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers. 35 (1): 257. Bibcode:2006JAVSO..35..257M. "Beneath the Milky Way". European Southern...
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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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"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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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...
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3 Musketeers (chocolate bar) (category The Three Musketeers)
global Milky Way bar as well as the American version of the Milky Way bar (only without the latter's caramel topping). Introduced in 1932, the 3 Musketeers...
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