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  2. Sloan Digital Sky Survey - Wikipedia

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    The Sloan Digital Sky Survey or SDSS is a major multi-spectral imaging and spectroscopic redshift survey using a dedicated 2.5-m wide-angle optical telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, United States. The project began in 2000 and was named after the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which contributed significant funding.

  3. List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs - Wikipedia

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    Animated 3D map of the nearest stars, ... The Orion Arm is one of the spiral arms of our Milky Way galaxy. Astrometrics Stars and star systems within 12.5 ly.

  4. Gaia (spacecraft) - Wikipedia

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    Gaia is a space observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA), launched in 2013 and expected to operate until 2025. The spacecraft is designed for astrometry: measuring the positions, distances and motions of stars with unprecedented precision, and the positions of exoplanets by measuring attributes about the stars they orbit such as their apparent magnitude and color.

  5. Virgo Supercluster - Wikipedia

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    Virgo Supercluster. The Virgo Supercluster ( Virgo SC) or the Local Supercluster ( LSC or LS) was a formerly defined supercluster containing the Virgo Cluster and Local Group, which itself contains the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, as well as others. At least 100 galaxy groups and clusters are located within its diameter of 33 megaparsecs ...

  6. Velocity dispersion - Wikipedia

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    For example, the σ found for objects about the Milky Way's supermassive black hole (SMBH) is about 100 km/s. The Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) hosts a SMBH about 10 times larger than our own, and has a σ ≈ 160 km/s. Groups and clusters of galaxies have a wider range of velocity dispersions than smaller objects.

  7. Local Interstellar Cloud - Wikipedia

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    Map showing the Sun located near the edge of the Local Interstellar Cloud and Alpha Centauri about 4 light-years away in the neighboring G-Cloud complex The Local Interstellar Cloud ( LIC ), also known as the Local Fluff , is an interstellar cloud roughly 30 light-years (9.2 pc ) across, through which the Solar System is moving.

  8. Ursa Major III - Wikipedia

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    Ursa Major III (UMa III) is a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, the smallest and faintest ever discovered. [2] It was found by the deep, wide field Ultraviolet Near Infrared Optical Northern Survey (UNIONS), a collaboration between the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope and Pan-STARRS (two observatories in Hawaii), with additional data ...

  9. Gaia Sky - Wikipedia

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    Gaia Sky is an open-source astronomy visualisation desktop and VR program with versions for Windows, Linux and macOS.It is created and developed by Toni Sagristà Sellés in the framework of ESA's Gaia mission to create a billion-star multi-dimensional map of our Milky Way Galaxy, in the Gaia group of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ZAH, Universität Heidelberg).