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The centre of the Milky Way is about 26 000 light-years away. 1 × 10 5 ly: The Milky Way is about 100 000 light-years across. 1.65 × 10 5 ly: R136a1, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the most luminous star known at 8.7 million times the luminosity of the Sun, has an apparent magnitude 12.77, just brighter than 3C 273. 10 6: 2.5 × 10 6 ly
A Super-Earth is a type of exoplanet with a mass higher than Earth 's, but substantially below those of the Solar System's ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, which are 14.5 and 17 times Earth's, respectively. [1] The term "super-Earth" refers only to the mass of the planet, and so does not imply anything about the surface conditions or habitability.
The Milky Way ( French: La Voie lactée) is a 1969 comedy-drama film directed by Luis Buñuel. It stars Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Denis Manuel, and Daniel Pilon, and features the likes of Alain Cuny, Michel Piccoli, and Delphine Seyrig in its ensemble cast. Buñuel later called The Milky Way the first in a trilogy (along with his ...
The expansion of the universe is the increase in distance between gravitationally unbound parts of the observable universe with time. [1] It is an intrinsic expansion, so it does not mean that the universe expands "into" anything or that space exists "outside" it. To any observer in the universe, it appears that all but the nearest galaxies ...
Visible mass–energy in our galaxy, the Milky Way: 10 59 1×10 59 J: Total mass–energy of our galaxy, the Milky Way, including dark matter and dark energy: 10 62 1–2×10 62 J: Total mass–energy of the Virgo Supercluster including dark matter, the Supercluster which contains the Milky Way: 10 69: 4×10 69 J
The Alien Zoos are ever-popular attractions, featuring the most bizarre creatures from the Milky Way galaxy and beyond. The Central Mega-City Library is open free of charge to the public and is the storehouse of information on Mega-City One and beyond, past and present. Late fees are very high.
The Milky Way galaxy is a member of an association named the Local Group, a relatively small group of galaxies that has a diameter of approximately one megaparsec. The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are the two brightest galaxies within the group; many of the other member galaxies are dwarf companions of these two.
The Origin of the Milky Way is a painting by the Italian late Renaissance master Jacopo Tintoretto, in the National Gallery, London, formerly in the Orleans Collection. It is an oil painting on canvas, and dates from ca.1575–1580. According to myth, the infant Heracles was brought to Hera by his half-sister Athena, who later played an ...