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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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...
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    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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    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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    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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  • "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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    Laniakea Supercluster (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
    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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  • 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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    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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    Orion Arm (category Milky Way arms)
    The Orion Arm, also known as the Orion–Cygnus Arm, is a minor spiral arm within the Milky Way Galaxy spanning 3,500 light-years (1,100 parsecs) in width...
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  • Night on the Galactic Railroad (銀河鉄道の夜, Ginga Tetsudō no Yoru), sometimes translated as Milky Way Railroad, Night Train to the Stars or Fantasy Railroad...
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    Galaxy Zoo (category Astronomy projects)
    Planet Hunters – Citizen science project to find exoplanets SETILive The Milky Way Project – citizen science projectPages displaying wikidata descriptions...
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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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    List of globular clusters (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
    clusters. The apparent magnitude does not include an extinction correction. These are globular clusters within the halo of the Milky Way galaxy. The diameter...
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