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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. Andromeda–Milky Way collision - Wikipedia

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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 Group—the Milky Way (which contains the Solar System and Earth) and the Andromeda Galaxy.

  4. 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.

  5. List of names for the Milky Way - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese name for the Milky Way is the "River of Heaven" (天の川), as well as an alternative name in Chinese (Chinese: 天河; pinyin: Tiān hé). Straw Way [ edit ] In West Asia, Central Asia and parts of the Balkans the name for the Milky Way is related to the word for straw .

  6. Category:Milky Way - Wikipedia

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    Category:Milky Way. The main article for this category is Milky Way. This category is for categorizing under the galaxy, not under the band of light in the night sky. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Milky Way Galaxy.

  7. Perseus Arm - Wikipedia

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    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 from the distal end of the long Milky Way central bar. [1] Previously thought to be 13,000 light-years away, it is now thought to lie 6,400 light years from the Solar System.

  8. Satellite galaxies of the Milky Way - Wikipedia

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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, the Local Group.. There are 61 small galaxies confirmed to be within 420 kiloparsecs (1.4 million light-years) of the Milky Way, but not all of them are necessarily in orbit, and some may themselves be in orbit of other satellite galaxies.

  9. Thin disk - Wikipedia

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    The thin disk is a structural component of spiral and S0-type galaxies, composed of stars, gas and dust. It is the main non-centre (e.g. galactic bulge) density, of such matter. That of the Milky Way is thought to have a scale height of around 300–400 parsecs (980–1,300 ly) in the vertical axis perpendicular to the disk, [1] and a scale ...