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In Hindu cosmology, the Kshira Sagara ( IAST: Kṣīra Sāgara; Tamil: Tiruppāṟkaṭal; Malayalam: Pālāḻi) or Ocean of Milk is the fifth from the centre of the seven oceans. It surrounds the continent known as Krauncha. [1] According to Hindu scriptures, the devas and asuras worked together for a millennium to churn this ocean in order ...
Malayalam: ആകാശഗംഗ "Ganges of the Aether (Upper Sky)", from a Hindu myth. Malayalam: ക്ഷീരപഥം "Milky Way", translated from Latin. Malayalam: പാലാഴി "Sea of Milk" (alternative) Macedonian: Млечен Пат "Milky Way". Marathi: आकाशगंगा "Ganges of the Aether (Upper Sky)”, translated ...
The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are a binary system of giant spiral galaxies belonging to a group of 50 closely bound galaxies known as the Local Group, surrounded by a Local Void, itself being part of the Local Sheet and in turn the Virgo Supercluster.
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.
Astronomers have identified two ancient streams of stars - named after the Hindu deities Shakti and Shiva - that appear to be among the Milky Way's earliest building blocks, offering new...
Astronomers have used the Gaia space telescope to spy some of the first building blocks of the Milky Way galaxy: two ancient streams of stars named Shakti and Shiva that helped our home galaxy...
Illustration of Cepheid variables (red dots) at the center of the Milky Way. In the mid 20th century, significant problems with the astronomical distance scale were resolved by dividing the Cepheids into different classes with very different properties.
Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) The Fermi paradox is a conflict between the argument that scale and probability seem to favor intelligent life being common in the universe, and the total lack of evidence of intelligent life having ever arisen anywhere other than on Earth. The first aspect of the Fermi paradox is a function of the scale or the large ...
The Milky Way forms the abdomen of the dolphin and is called Akasaganga which means "The Ganges River of the Sky". According to Hindu mythology, Vishnu lies meditating on Shesha with his consort Lakshmi, in the Kshira Sagara (Sea of Milk), which is a representation of Milky Way.
The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy with two major arms and a number of minor arms or spurs. The Perseus Spiral Arm, with a radius of approximately 10.7 kiloparsecs, is located between the minor Cygnus and Carina–Sagittarius Arms. It is named after the Perseus constellation in the direction of which it is seen from Earth.