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...
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Milky Way is a brand of chocolate-covered confectionery bar manufactured and marketed by Mars, Incorporated. There are two varieties: the US Milky Way...
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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...
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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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Sagittarius A* (redirect from The black hole at the center of the Milky Way)
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...
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Galactic Center (redirect from Centre of the Milky Way)
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...
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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...
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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,...
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"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...
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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,...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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outside the Milky Way galaxy, although a related class of phenomena, soft gamma repeaters, are associated with magnetars within the Milky Way. It has...
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Supermassive black hole (section In the Milky Way)
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...
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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...
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Local Group (redirect from The Local Group of Galaxies)
The Local Group is the galaxy group that includes the Milky Way, where Earth is located. It has a total diameter of roughly 3 megaparsecs (10 million...
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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...
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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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The Milky Way is a one-reel animated cartoon short subject, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres with the film The Captain Is a Lady in 1940...
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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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Spiral galaxy (section Milky Way)
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...
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Supernova (section Milky Way candidates)
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...
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Large Magellanic Cloud (redirect from The Large Cloud of Magellan)
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)...
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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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Spiral arm (section Spiral structure of the Milky Way)
the presence of spiral arms in the disc of our galaxy through optical observation, given that the Sun is situated within the plane of the Milky Way disc...
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