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  2. 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.

  3. 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, [1] is a classic Japanese fantasy novel by Kenji Miyazawa written around 1927. The nine-chapter novel was posthumously published by Bunpodō (文圃堂) in 1934 as ...

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Laniakea Supercluster - Wikipedia

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    The Laniakea Supercluster (/ ˌ l ɑː n i. ə ˈ k eɪ. ə /; Hawaiian for "open skies" or "immense heaven") is the galaxy supercluster that is home to the Milky Way and approximately 100,000 other nearby galaxies.

  7. The Planets and Beyond - Wikipedia

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    The episode consists entirely of segments broadcast previously in The Planets and Beyond episodes "Alien Galaxies: The Strange Secrets" (Season 2 Episode 6) and "Milky Way: the Monster Inside" (Season 2 Episode 3).

  8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wikipedia

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    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Hexagonal Phase (2018) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [a] [b] is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams. Originally a 1978 radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, it was later adapted to other formats, including novels, stage shows, comic books, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 text ...

  9. 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.

  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. Andromeda–Milky Way collision - Wikipedia

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    AndromedaMilky Way collision. 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.