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    the MilkyWay@home project aims to generate accurate three-dimensional dynamic models of stellar streams in the immediate vicinity of the Milky Way. With...
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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...
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  • Bosnian film The Milky Way (2007 film) (A via láctea), by Lina Chamie (Brazil), featured at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival MilkyWay, a Japanese girl group...
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    Literary Museum: 49–61. doi:10.7592/fejf2002.22.milkyway. Jannsen, Harry (1895) [1888]. "The Milky Way". sacred-texts.com. In: Kirby, W. F. (1895) The...
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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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    was launched in 1996 and distributed.net in 1997. Along with MilkyWay@home and Einstein@home, it is the third major computing project of this type that...
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    With NVIDIA's assistance, several BOINC-based projects (e.g., MilkyWay@home. SETI@home) developed applications that run on NVIDIA GPUs using CUDA. BOINC...
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  • "SETI@Home Credit overview". BOINC. Retrieved June 15, 2018. "Einstein@Home Credit overview". BOINC. Retrieved June 15, 2018. "MilkyWay@Home Credit overview"...
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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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    Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy (category Milky Way Subgroup)
    with computational support by the MilkyWay@Home project. A simulation published in 2011 suggested that the Milky Way may have obtained its spiral structure...
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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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  • 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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    "Information on MilkyWay@Home". Retrieved 2012-02-03. "About MilkyWay@home". 2012. Retrieved 2012-01-13. "BOINCstats — Milkyway@Home". boincstats.com...
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  • February 2018, Einstein@Home – 3.489 PFLOPS. As of April 7, 2020, SETI@Home – 1.11 PFLOPS. As of April 7, 2020, MilkyWay@Home – 1.465 PFLOPS. As of March...
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    Newberg; Andreas Przystawik; David Anderson (2009). "Accelerating the MilkyWay@Home volunteer computing project with GPUs". 8th International Conference...
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    Local 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...
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    Princess Kay of the Milky Way is the title awarded to the winner of the statewide Minnesota Dairy Princess Program, an annual competition organized by...
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  • "Just the Way You Are" is the debut single of Italian house music group Milky. Although it did not chart in the band's home country, it was a top-10 hit...
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  • also one of the Principals in the MilkyWay@home project that seeks to model the streams of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy that were pulled from nearby...
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    Magellanic Clouds (category Milky Way Subgroup)
    irregular dwarf galaxies in the southern celestial hemisphere. Orbiting the Milky Way galaxy, these satellite galaxies are members of the Local Group. Because...
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    Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy (category Milky Way Subgroup)
    dwarf galaxy companion. The Sculptor Dwarf is home to the most metal-poor star outside of the Milky Way, known as AS0039, with a metallicity of [Fe/H]...
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    Milky Chance is a German rock band originating in Kassel. It consists of vocalist and guitarist Clemens Rehbein, bassist and percussionist Philipp Dausch...
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    and other data sources. MilkyWay@home also used SDSS's data to create a highly accurate three-dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy. Along with publications...
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    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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  • "Milky White Way" is a gospel standard written by Lander Coleman, who was a quartet singer for the Coleman Brothers. The song became a million-selling...
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    Astrostatistics Association International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) MilkyWay@home Virtual Observatory WorldWide Telescope Zooniverse "Largest Galaxy Proto-Supercluster...
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    Monoceros Ring (category Milky Way)
    for 'unicorn') is a long, complex, ring of stars that wraps around the Milky Way three times. This is proposed to consist of a stellar stream torn from...
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  • being discovered, and galaxies located behind the central plane of the Milky Way are extremely difficult to discern. It is possible for any galaxy to mask...
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  • - 4:39 "When I Still Had You" (Landreth) - 4:42 "Way Past Long" (Landreth) - 5:08 "The Milky Way Home" (Landreth) - 4:10 "Storm of Worry" (Landreth) -...
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    Fish Head Nebula (category Milky Way)
    forming system of gas and dust located along the Perseus spiral arm of the Milky Way. The nebula is located in the Constellation Cassiopeia, approximately...
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