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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. 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]

  5. 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 ...

  6. List of nearest galaxies - Wikipedia

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    Picture Galaxy Type Distance from Earth Magnitude Group Membership Notes Diameter (ly) Millions of light-years Mpc M m - Milky Way: SBbc 0.0265 (to the galactic center) [2] 0.008 [2] ...

  7. Gould Belt - Wikipedia

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    The Gould Belt is a local ring of stars in the Milky Way, tilted away from the galactic plane by about 16–20 degrees, first reported by John Herschel and Benjamin Gould in the 19th century. [1] It contains many O- and B-type stars, and many of the nearest star-forming regions of the local Orion Arm, to which the Sun belongs.

  8. The Milky Way (1940 film) - Wikipedia

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    The short (produced [2] and directed by Rudolf Ising and co-produced by Fred Quimby with the voice of Bernice Hansen as the kittens and their mother, and musical supervision by Scott Bradley) [2] explores the adventures of the "three little kittens who lost their mittens", as they explore a dreamland where space is made up entirely of dairy ...

  9. List of Ready Jet Go! episodes - Wikipedia

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    "How We Found Your Sun": Jet explains how his family, the Propulsions, found Earth by way of the Sun, a star in the Milky Way galaxy. Celery takes the kids out into space and shows them how the Sun looks huge, or small like other stars, depending on your perspective.