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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • for the Milky Way are in various languages. Some of them derive from myths, which can be found at Milky Way (mythology). Before galaxies in the modern...
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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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  • "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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  • 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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    Kay of the Milky Way is the title awarded to the winner of the statewide Minnesota Dairy Princess Program, an annual competition organized by the Midwest...
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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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    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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    that occurred in the Milky Way, in the constellation Ophiuchus. Appearing in 1604, it is the most recent supernova in the Milky Way galaxy to have been...
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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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  • 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 comedy-drama film directed by Luis Buñuel. It stars Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Denis Manuel, and...
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  • The Milky Way (Hebrew: חלב, romanized: Halav) is a 2023 Israeli-French dystopian black comedy film written, edited and directed by Maya Kenig. Starring...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    of heliocentrism with the Sun at the center of the Milky Way. The 19th century astronomer Johann Heinrich von Mädler proposed the Central Sun Hypothesis...
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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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    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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