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2. Milky Way (chocolate bar) - Wikipedia

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   The Milky Way bar is made of nougat, topped with caramel and covered with milk chocolate. It was created in 1923 by Frank C. Mars and originally manufactured in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The name and taste derived from a then-popular malted milk drink ( milkshake) of the day, not after the astronomical galaxy.

3. Milky Way - Wikipedia

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   The Milky Way [c] 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 night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.

4. List of nearest galaxies - Wikipedia

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   Satellite of Milky Way 5 Sagittarius Dwarf Sphr SagDEG dSph/E7 0.078 0.024: −12.67: 4.5: Local Group: Satellite of Milky Way (partial accretion by Milky Way) 10,000 ly 6 Hydrus I: 0.0900 0.0276: −4.71: 12.49: Local Group: Satellite of Milky Way, possibly associated with the Magellanic Clouds: 348 ly 7 Carina III: 0.0907

5. List of stellar streams - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of stellar streams. A stellar stream is an association of stars orbiting a galaxy. It was once a globular cluster or dwarf galaxy that has now been torn apart and stretched out along its orbit by tidal forces. [1] An exception in the list about Milky Way streams given below is the Magellanic Stream, composed of gas (mostly ...

6. List of galaxies - Wikipedia

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   Size (left) and distance (right) of a few well-known galaxies put to scale. The following is a list of notable galaxies.. There are about 51 galaxies in the Local Group (see list of nearest galaxies for a complete list), on the order of 100,000 in the Local Supercluster, and an estimated 100 billion in all of the observable universe.

7. Sagittarius A* - Wikipedia

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   Sagittarius A*, abbreviated Sgr A* ( / ˈsædʒ ˈeɪ stɑːr / SADGE-AY-star [3] ), is the supermassive black hole [4] [5] [6] at the Galactic Center of the Milky Way. Viewed from Earth, it is located near the border of the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius, about 5.6° south of the ecliptic, [7] visually close to the Butterfly Cluster ...