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    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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    Galactic Center, and the Perseus Arm's local portion, which forms the main outer-most arm. Scientists once believed the Orion arm to be a minor structure...
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    Galactic Center with the rest beyond the galactic central bulge, and the Perseus Arm, similar in size and shape but locally much closer looking outward, away...
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    Perseus is a constellation in the northern sky, named after the Greek mythological hero Perseus. It is one of the 48 ancient constellations listed by...
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    constellation Perseus. Both visible with the naked eye, NGC 869 and NGC 884 lie at a distance of about 7,500 light years in the Perseus Arm of the Milky...
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    with the Cygnus Arm (not to be confused with local and minor Orion-Cygnus Arm), which lies outside the Perseus Arm, or the Outer Arm, which is located...
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    of the Galactic disk. The distance between the local arm and the next arm out, the Perseus Arm, is about 2,000 parsecs (6,500 ly). The Sun, and thus...
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    Messier 52 (category Perseus Arm)
    Messier 52 or M52, also known as NGC 7654 or the Scorpion Cluster, is an open cluster of stars in the highly northern constellation of Cassiopeia. It was...
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    Heart Nebula (category Perseus Arm)
    emission nebula, 7500 light years away from Earth and located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered by William...
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  • Antarctica Perseus (constellation), a constellation in the northern sky Perseus Arm, an arm of the Milky Way Perseus Cluster, a galaxy cluster Perseus–Pisces...
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    Messier 37 (category Perseus Arm)
    Messier 37 (also known as M37, NGC 2099, or the Salt and Pepper Cluster) is the brightest and richest open cluster in the constellation Auriga. It was...
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    Messier 103 (category Perseus Arm)
    Messier 103 (also known as M103, or NGC 581) is a small open cluster of many faint stars in Cassiopeia. It was discovered on 27 March 1781 by Pierre Méchain...
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    Messier 38 (category Perseus Arm)
    Messier 38 or M38, also known as NGC 1912 or Starfish Cluster, is an open cluster of stars in the constellation of Auriga. It was discovered by Giovanni...
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    the Milky Way; given the width of the Orion Arm, it lies in the next-nearest arm outwards, the Perseus Arm, about 30 degrees from the Galactic anticenter...
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    Crab Nebula (category Perseus Arm)
    using binoculars under favourable conditions. The nebula lies in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way galaxy, at a distance of about 2.0 kiloparsecs (6,500 ly)...
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    a distance of approximately 8.5 kilolight-years from the Sun, in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way. The cluster spans ~20 light-years (6 pc) with an elongated...
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    6.4 and is approximately 10,000 light-years from Earth, lying in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way. However, its most prominent member, the double star...
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    center, inner and outer planets, Kuiper belt, Oort cloud, Alpha Centauri, Perseus Arm, Milky Way galaxy, Andromeda Galaxy, nearby galaxies, Cosmic web, Cosmic...
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    Messier 36 (category Perseus Arm)
    Messier 36 or M36, also known as NGC 1960 or the Pinwheel Cluster, is an open cluster of stars in the somewhat northern Auriga constellation. It was discovered...
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    dwarfs List of nearby stellar associations and moving groups Orion Arm Perseus Arm Voyager program – probes left heliosphere in the 2010s "NAME LIC"....
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  • Perseus Books Group was an American publishing company founded in 1996 by investor Frank Pearl. Perseus acquired the trade publishing division of Addison-Wesley...
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  • Unveiled in 2011 at the Salon du Bourget in Paris, Perseus or CVS401 Perseus (named after the Greek hero Perseus) was a concept study undertaken by MBDA for...
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    Perseus OB1 is an OB association in the Northern Celestial Hemisphere in the constellation Perseus. It is centered around the double cluster (NGC 869 and...
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    cloud in the Milky Way Galaxy Orion Arm – Minor spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy; contains the Solar System Perseus Arm – One of two major spiral arms of...
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  • N2 (code named Perseus) is derived from the Cortex-A710 and implements the ARMv9.0-A instruction set. It was officially announced by Arm on September 22...
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    rich star-forming arms of the Milky Way - including the Perseus Arm and the Orion–Cygnus Arm - run through it. The three brightest open clusters are M36...
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  • lifeforms nears its end. The former intend to form a protective wall in the Perseus arm, which would result in the destruction of a hundred million stars. As...
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    is about 300 times the size of the Solar System. It is located in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way and is probably part of the Cassiopeia OB2 complex....
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    of Perseus and Andromeda frame the monster, which accentuates its weak position. In addition, Perseus and Andromeda have their right arm and left arm raised...
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    HMS Perseus was a Colossus-class light fleet aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy during World War II. The ship was initially named HMS Edgar, but...
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