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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. 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 .

  4. 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

  5. Roblox - Wikipedia

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    October 10, 2023 [8] Genre (s) Game creation system, massively multiplayer online. Mode (s) Single-player, multi-player. Roblox ( / ˈroʊblɒks / ROH-bloks) is an online game platform and game creation system developed by Roblox Corporation that allows users to program and play games created by themselves or other users.

  6. 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.

  7. Galactic quadrant - Wikipedia

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    Galactic quadrant. Longitudinal lines of the galactic coordinate system. A galactic quadrant, or quadrant of the Galaxy, is one of four circular sectors in the division of the Milky Way Galaxy. Numbered quadrants and sectors of constellations. Quadrants as starcharts, with most prominent stars marked.

  8. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. 550 Madison Avenue is a postmodern skyscraper on Madison Avenue between 55th Street and 56th Street in New York City. Designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee with associate architect Simmons Architects, the building was completed in 1984. It is a 647-foot-tall (197-meter), 37-story office tower ...

  9. Category:Milky Way - Wikipedia

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    M. Maggie (astronomy) Messier 13. Milky Way (mythology) Monoceros Ring. List of most luminous stars.

  10. List of Internet top-level domains - Wikipedia

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    A list of the top-level domains by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is maintained at the Root Zone Database. [1] IANA also oversees the approval process for new proposed top-level domains for ICANN. As of April 2021, their root domain contains 1502 top-level domains. [2] [3] As of March 2021, the IANA root database includes 1589 TLDs.

  11. The Milky Way Project - Wikipedia

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    The Milky Way Project is a Zooniverse project whose main goal is to identify stellar-wind bubbles in the Milky Way Galaxy. Users classify sets of infrared images from the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer ( WISE ). [1] Scientists believe bubbles in these images are the result of young, massive stars whose light ...