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2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Large Magellanic Cloud - Wikipedia

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   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), the LMC is the second- or third-closest galaxy to the Milky Way, after the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal (c. 16 kiloparsecs (52,000 light-years) away) and the possible dwarf irregular galaxy called the Canis Major Overdensity.

5. The Milky Way (amusement park) - Wikipedia

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   Coordinates: 50.9804°N 4.3840°W. The Milky Way Adventure Park (Downland Farm) is an amusement park in North Devon. It was named as Devon's Large Attraction of the Year by Visit Devon in 2023/24 and as one of the UK's best amusement parks by Trip Advisor every year since 2015 in their Travellers Choice Awards. The Milky Way park has over ...

6. List of nearest galaxies - Wikipedia

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   Satellite of Milky Way that is being tidally disrupted: 220 ly 4 Segue 1: dSph or Glob Clus 0.075 0.023: −3.0: 13.8: Local Group: 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

7. Milky Way (Antarctica) - Wikipedia

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   Milky Way (Antarctica) Coordinates: 71°11′S 68°55′W. The Milky Way is a col (a gap between two mountain peaks) situated between the southernmost extremity of the LeMay Range and the Planet Heights mountain range, in the eastern part of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It is the highest point on a possible sledging route between Jupiter ...