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   It was formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago, is a terrestrial planet and is the second smallest of the Solar System 's planets with a diameter of 6,779 km (4,212 mi). A Martian solar day ( sol) is 24.5 hours and a Martian solar year is 1.88 Earth years (687 Earth days). Mars has two small and irregular natural satellites: Phobos and Deimos.

3. Local Group - Wikipedia

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   The Local Group is the galaxy group that includes the Milky Way, where Earth is located. It has a total diameter of roughly 3 megaparsecs (10 million light-years; 9 × 10 19 kilometres ), [1] and a total mass of the order of 2 × 10 12 solar masses (4 × 10 42 kg). [2] It consists of two collections of galaxies in a "dumbbell" shape; the Milky ...

4. List of Georgia area codes - Wikipedia

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   List of area codes. 229 – Albany, Thomasville, Valdosta, Tifton, Cairo Georgia, Fitzgerald and Americus (southwest Georgia) 404 – Atlanta and immediate environs (central Fulton and DeKalb counties) 470 – Atlanta and its suburbs, overlay area code that covers same area as 678, 770, and 943. 478 – Macon, Forsyth, Fort Valley, Warner ...

5. Google - Wikipedia

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   Google LLC The Google logo used since 2015 Google's headquarters, the Googleplex Formerly Google Inc. (1998–2017) Company type Subsidiary Traded as NASDAQ: GOOGL, GOOG Industry Internet Cloud computing Computer software Computer hardware Artificial intelligence Advertising Founded September 4, 1998 ; 25 years ago (1998-09-04) [a] in Menlo Park, California, United States Founders Larry Page ...

6. Thick disk - Wikipedia

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   Thick disk. The thick disk is one of the structural components of about 2/3 of all disk galaxies, including the Milky Way. It was discovered first in external edge-on galaxies. [1] Soon after, it was proposed as a distinct galactic structure in the Milky Way, different from the thin disk and the halo in the 1983 article by Gilmore & Reid. [2]

7. Galactic bulge - Wikipedia

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   Galactic bulge. Artist's impression of the central bulge of the Milky Way [1] In astronomy, a galactic bulge (or simply bulge) is a tightly packed group of stars within a larger star formation. The term almost exclusively refers to the central group of stars found in most spiral galaxies (see galactic spheroid ).