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2. Category:Milky Way - Wikipedia

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   Category:Milky Way - Wikipedia. Category:Milky Way. The main article for this category is Milky Way. This category is for categorizing under the galaxy, not under the band of light in the night sky. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Milky Way Galaxy.

3. List of names for the Milky Way - Wikipedia

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   This article was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 27 March 2024 with a consensus to merge the content into the article Milky Way#Etymology and mythology.If you find that such action has not been taken promptly, please consider assisting in the merger instead of re-nominating the article for deletion.

4. 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.

5. Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy - Wikipedia

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   The Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy ( Sgr dSph ), also known as the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy ( Sgr dE or Sag DEG ), is an elliptical loop-shaped satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It contains four globular clusters in its main body, [8] with the brightest of them— NGC 6715 (M54)—being known well before the discovery of the ...

6. Sagittarius A* - Wikipedia

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   Sagittarius A*, abbreviated Sgr A* ( / ˈsædʒ ˈeɪ stɑːr / SADGE-AY-star [3] ), is the supermassive black hole [4] [5] [6] at the Galactic Center of the Milky Way. Viewed from Earth, it is located near the border of the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius, about 5.6° south of the ecliptic, [7] visually close to the Butterfly Cluster ...

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. The Milky Way Project - Wikipedia

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   The Milky Way Project. 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 ...