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  2. Milky Way - Wikipedia

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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 night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.

  3. Galactic Center - Wikipedia

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    White Dwarfs in Milky Way's Central Hub. [58] The center of the Milky Way – image taken by ISAAC, the VLT 's near- and mid-infrared spectrometer and camera. Infrared image from Spitzer Space Telescope. A view of the night sky near Sagittarius, enhanced to show better contrast and detail in the dust lanes.

  4. Night on the Galactic Railroad - Wikipedia

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    Night on the Galactic Railroad (銀河鉄道の夜, Ginga Tetsudō no Yoru), sometimes translated as Milky Way Railroad, Night Train to the Stars or Fantasy Railroad in the Stars, is a classic Japanese fantasy novel by Kenji Miyazawa written around 1927.

  5. Great Rift (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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    In astronomy, the Great Rift (sometimes called the Dark Rift or less commonly the Dark River) is a dark band caused by interstellar clouds of cosmic dust that significantly obscure the center and most radial sectors of the Milky Way galaxy from Earth's perspective.

  6. List of largest stars - Wikipedia

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    Milky Way: Local Group: L/T eff: During the outburst, the star became the second brightest star in sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of between -0.8 and -1.0. AT 2010dn: 4,130: 2010 NGC 3180: LDC 743: L/T eff: SN 2011fh: 3,980: 2011 NGC 4806: Abell 3528: L/T eff: AT 2014ej: 3,600: 2014 NGC 7552: Grus Quartet: L/T eff: V838 Monocerotis: 3,190: ...

  7. Sagittarius A* - Wikipedia

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    Based on mass and increasingly precise radius limits, astronomers have concluded that Sagittarius A* must be the central supermassive black hole of the Milky Way galaxy. The current value of its mass is 4.297 ± 0.012 million solar masses.

  8. Orion Arm - Wikipedia

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    The Orion Arm, also known as the Orion–Cygnus Arm, is a minor spiral arm within the Milky Way Galaxy spanning 3,500 light-years (1,100 parsecs) in width and extending roughly 10,000 light-years (3,100 parsecs) in length. [2] This galactic structure encompasses the Solar System, including Earth.

  9. Night sky - Wikipedia

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    The Milky Way contains billions of stars, arranged in two strikingly different structures: halo and disc. On clear dark nights in unpolluted areas, when the Moon appears thin or below the horizon, the Milky Way, a band of what looks like white dust, can be seen.

  10. Andromeda–Milky Way collision - Wikipedia

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    A NASA conception of the collision using computer-generated imagery. The AndromedaMilky 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.

  11. Magellanic Clouds - Wikipedia

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    The Large Magellanic Cloud and its neighbour and relative, the Small Magellanic Cloud, are conspicuous objects in the southern hemisphere, looking like separated pieces of the Milky Way to the naked eye. Roughly 21 ° apart in the night sky, the true distance between them is roughly 75,000 light-years.