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  2. The Planets and Beyond - Wikipedia

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    The Milky Way's deadliest phenomena. The episode consists entirely of segments broadcast previously in The Planets and Beyond episode "Milky Way: The Monster Inside" (Season 2 Episode 3) and the How the Universe Works episode "Death of the Milky Way," also known as "Monsters of the Milky Way" (Season 6 Episode 4).

  3. How the Universe Works - Wikipedia

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    Earth's journey through the universe is a perilous one, and new discoveries reveal that the planet is heading toward a mysterious area of the cosmos that could eject us out of the Milky Way and into oblivion.

  4. Milky Way - Wikipedia

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    The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy with a D 25 isophotal diameter estimated at 26.8 ± 1.1 kiloparsecs (87,400 ± 3,600 light-years), but only about 1,000 light-years thick at the spiral arms (more at the bulge).

  5. Strip the Cosmos - Wikipedia

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    Astronomers scour the cosmos to identify a planet that humans could live on in the future, but the more planets they find, the more they discover how deadly to planets the Milky Way is. The episode examines why the Milky Way destroys so many planets, including how super-small, cool stars fry the planets that orbit them, how the carbon-rich ...

  6. The Universe (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Release. May 29, 2007. ( 2007-05-29) –. May 23, 2015. ( 2015-05-23) [1] The Universe is an American documentary television series that features computer-generated imagery and computer graphics of astronomical objects in the universe plus interviews with experts who study in the fields of cosmology, astronomy, and astrophysics.

  7. Laniakea Supercluster - Wikipedia

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    The Laniakea Supercluster ( / ˌlɑːni.əˈkeɪ.ə /; Hawaiian for "open skies" or "immense heaven") [2] is the galaxy supercluster that is home to the Milky Way and approximately 100,000 other nearby galaxies. It was defined in September 2014, when a group of astronomers including R. Brent Tully of the University of Hawaiʻi, Hélène ...

  8. Standing Up in the Milky Way - Wikipedia

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    In this episode, Tyson takes a tour of the Solar System and the Milky Way galaxy, explores the life of Renaissance philosopher Giordano Bruno and his vision of the cosmos, goes through a Cosmic Calendar from the beginning of the universe until the present, and ends with a tribute to Carl Sagan.

  9. Andromeda–Milky Way collision - Wikipedia

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    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.

  10. 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.

  11. Sagittarius A* - Wikipedia

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    NuSTAR has captured these first, focused views of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way in high-energy X-rays. In a paper published on October 31, 2018, the discovery of conclusive evidence that Sagittarius A* is a black hole was announced.