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  2. 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 in other arms of the galaxy, which are so far away that they cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.

  3. List of fictional universes in animation and comics - Wikipedia

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    The Earth was destroyed by the tyrannical Zygoteans, then later the Milky Way Galaxy by the deity-like Aknaton. The last survivor of the Milky Way is Vanth Dreadstar of Byfrexia, who travels the universe with an ensemble cast of adventurers. This universe is also known as Earth-8116 as part of the Marvel multiverse. Dynamite Entertainment Universe

  4. Jon Lomberg - Wikipedia

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    Lomberg's Milky Way portrait as background for Kepler Mission diagram. The Smithsonian Institution commissioned Lomberg in the early 1990s to paint "A Portrait of the Milky Way" , a scientifically accurate artistic representation of the Milky Way galaxy as seen by a hypothetical observer from a vantage point 10 degrees above the galactic plane ...

  5. Orion Arm - Wikipedia

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    Figure 1.The observed structure of the Milky Way's spiral arms [1]. The Orion Arm, also known as the Orion–Cygnus Arm, is a minor spiral arm within the Milky Way Galaxy spanning 3,500 light-years (1,100 parsecs) in width and extending roughly 20,000 light-years (6,100 parsecs) in length. [2]

  6. Galactic Center - Wikipedia

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    The Galactic Center is the barycenter of the Milky Way and a corresponding point on the rotational axis of the galaxy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its central massive object is a supermassive black hole of about 4 million solar masses , which is called Sagittarius A* , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] a compact radio source which is almost exactly at the galactic rotational ...

  7. Earliest building blocks of the Milky Way discovered near its ...

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    Astronomers using the Gaia space telescope have located two ancient streams of stars that helped the Milky Way galaxy grow and evolve more than 12 billion years ago.

  8. The Milky Way (1940 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Milky Way is a one-reel animated cartoon short subject, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres with the film The Captain Is a Lady in 1940 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

  9. Lauren Faust - Wikipedia

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    Faust shifted to television animation in 1999, working on The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends [4] at Cartoon Network Studios as a storyboard artist, screenwriter, supervising producer, story supervisor. [5] Faust created and developed the toy line Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls.