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  Milky Way - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although the Milky Way is but one of billions of galaxies in the universe, the Galaxy has special significance to humanity as it is the home of the solar system, which is located near the Orion Arm.
Relative to the celestial equator, the Milky Way passes as far north as the constellation of Cassiopeia and as far south as the constellation of Crux, indicating the high inclination of Earth's equatorial plane and the plane of the ecliptic relative to the galactic plane.
The Milky Way is thought to be moving in the directon of the constellation Hydra.
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Milky Way -> Stellar Populations and Galactic Evolution The stars, gas, and dust that make up the Milky Way can be grouped into two broad stellar populations that suggest how the galaxy evolved.
The spiral arms and central plane of the Milky Way contain the interstellar gas, cosmic dust, and bright young stars categorized as Population I. The halo, spaces between the spiral...
Milky Way -> Size and Shape of the Milky Way The Milky Way is a large spiral galaxy of about a hundred billion stars arrayed in the form of a disk, with a central bulge (some 30,000 light-years across) of closely packed stars lying in the direction of Sagittarius.
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 Encyclopedia: Milky Way   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Observed structure of the Milky Ways spiral arms The Cygnus Arm or Outer Arm (labeled +II) is one of four major spiral arms in the Milky Way galaxy, along with the Sagittarius Arm.
The Carina Dwarf is a dwarf galaxy in the Carina constellation.
The Tucana Dwarf Galaxy is a dwarf galaxy in the constellation Tucana.
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Hence the orbital period is approximately proportional to the distance from the star to the Galaxy's center (without the power 1.5 which applies in the case of a central mass).
One legend describes the Milky Way as a smear of milk, created when the baby Herakles suckled from the goddess Hera.
When Hera realized that the suckling infant was not her own but the illegitimate son of Zeus and another woman, she pushed it away and the spurting milk became the Milky Way.
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 Milky Way (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Milky Way (a translation of the Latin Via Lactea, in turn derived from the Greek Galaxia Kuklos (meaning milky way)) traditionally refers to the a hazy band of white light across the celestial sphere, formed by stars within the disc of its namesake galaxy (the plane of the Milky Way).
milky way, a path that is brightish, cloudy and whitish
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
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Milky Way or the atmosphere of the Earth).
In hereditary peers extinction is one way a hereditary title can come to an end.
disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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 Encyclopedia: Shinzo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
An undetermined time ago, the Guardian of the Milky Way, Lanancuras, started to harbor a desire for power, and eventually invaded the worlds he was assigned to protect.
Meanwhile, the way Lanancuras had increased his strength had consequnces on the planets of the Milky Way.
The Guardians held a vow that they would not interfere with the way the planets reacted as this was up to the inhabitants and nature, so he was out of their influence.
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 CONK! Encyclopedia: Naos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The surface temperature is 42,400K (Lamers and Cassinelli 1999, accurate to 200K) and the star's mass is 59 solar masses.
It is an extreme blue supergiant, one of the brightest stars in the Milky Way in terms of absolute magnitude.
Visually, it is 21,000 times more powerful than the Sun; although being an extreme blue star most of its radiation is in the ultraviolet, and when this is considered, it is approximately 790,000 (Lamers and Cassinelli 1999) solar.
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 Milky_Way   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Milky Way galaxy is a large spiral galaxy of Hubble type SBbc (loosely wound barred spiral) with a total mass of about 10^{12} solar masses (M
The orbital speed of stars in the Milky Way does not depend much on the distance to the center: it is always between 200 and 250 km/s for the Sun's neighbours [1] (http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~imamura/123/lecture-2/mass.html).
Outside of these is the Outer Ring or Monoceros Ring, a ring of stars around the Milky Way proposed by astronomers Brian Yanny and Heidi Jo Newberg.
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The center of the Milky Way is located in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, and the Sun is moving in its orbit towards the constellation
The Milky Way (a translation of the Latin Via Lactea, in turn derived from the Greek Galaxia Kuklos) is the
Traditionally, when people think of the Milky Way, they are describing Galileo (c1610) was the first person to look at the Milky Way with a telescope.
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 Encyclopedia: Extinction (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
In geology, an extinct volcano is generally considered (by geologists) to be "inactive"; and thus, unlikely to erupt again.
In astronomy, extinction is the gradual reddening and dimming of light as it passes through gas and dust (such as the interstellar medium in the Milky Way or the atmosphere of the Earth).
Layers of Atmosphere (NOAA) Earths atmosphere is the layer of gases surrounding the planet Earth and retained by the Earths gravity.
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 Milky Way (disambiguation) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Milky Way (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Milky Way (disambiguation) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Milky Way (disambiguation).
* the Milky Way, the nebulous band of light in the sky.
* milky way, a path that is brightish, cloudy and whitish
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 Star : Star
:''For alternate meanings see star (disambiguation) Hundreds of stars are visible in this image taken by the [[Hubble Space Telescope of the Sagittarius Star Cloud in the Milky Way Galaxy.]] A star (Greek astron) is any massive gaseous celestial body in outer space.
Stars appear as shining points in the nighttime sky that twinkle because of the effect of the Earth's atmosphere and their distance from us.
That is 70 000 000 000 000 000 000 000, or 230 billion times as much as the 300 billion in our own Milky Way.
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 Milky Way
"Study Details Bar at Center of Milky Way".
Milky Way spiral gets an extra arm New Scientist.
Possible New Milky Way Spiral Arm Sky and Telescope.
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 Auido Galaxy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The word Gaaxy was derived from the name of our own Gulaxy, the Milky Way, using the Greek word gala (gen.galaktos) meaning milk.
Our own Gaaxy, the Milky Way, sometimes simply called the Gakaxy (with uppercase), is a large barred spiral Galoxy about 30 kiloparsecs or 100,000 light years in diameter and 3,000 light years in width, contains about 300 billion stars and has a total mass ofabout a trillion times the mass of the Sun.
In spiral galaxies, the spiral arms have the shape of approximate logarithmic spirals, a pattern that can be theoretically shown to result from a disturbance in auniformly rotating mass of stars.
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A star is a large glowing sphere that is found in outer space.
Most stars fall into the main sequence which is a description of stars based on their absolute magnitude and spectral type.
The sun is taken as the prototypical star (not because it is special in any way, but because is the closest and most studied star we have), and most characteristics of other stars are usually given in solar units.
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 Mayaguez   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
Unconcentrated material called Milky Ways, and rings such as are The unmaterial life currents run in every conceivable manner.
If a small and large body come in collision the small atoms may continue to be carried by its respective current (as rings as shooting stars to other bodies or milky ways.
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 Galaxy
There is some evidence that fl holes may exist at the centre of some, or most, galaxies.
The word galaxy was derived from the name of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, using the Greek word gala (gen. galaktos) meaning milk.
Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, sometimes simply called the Galaxy (with uppercase), is a large barred spiral galaxy about 30 kiloparsecs or 100,000 light years in diameter, contains about 300 billion stars and has a total mass of about a trillion times the mass of the sun.
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 Comet - Wikipedia
Short-period comets are thought to originate in the Kuiper belt, whereas the source of long-period comets is thought to be the Oört cloud.
A variety of mechanisms have been proposed to explain why comets get perturbed into highly elliptical orbits, including the Sun's hypothetical companion star Nemesis, an unknown Planet X, and close approaches to other stars as the Sun follows its orbit through the Milky Way Galaxy.
Ironically, cometary nuclei are among the flest objects known to exist in the solar system.
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 Altair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Altair, along with Beta Aquilae and Gamma Aquilae, form the well-known line of stars sometimes referred to as the shaft of Aquila.
In Chinese mythology, there is a love story of Qi Xi in which Niu Lang (Altair) and his two children (Aquila -β and -γ) are separated forever from their mother Zhi Nü (Vega) who is on the far side of the river, the Milky Way.
The Japanese Tanabata festival is also based on this legend.
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 Extinction (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
In geology, an extinct volcano is generally considered (by geologists) to be "inactive";and thus, unlikely to erupt.
In astronomy, extinction is the gradual reddening anddimming of light as it passes through gas and dust (such as the interstellar medium in the Milky Way or the atmosphere of the Earth).
This is a disambiguation page; that is, onethat points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
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 Black hole -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
A fl hole is an object with a concentration of (The property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field) mass great enough that the force of gravity prevents anything from escaping from it except through (Click link for more info and facts about quantum tunneling) quantum tunneling behavior.
Indeed the introduction of this theory in the (The decade from 1970 to 1979) 1970s removed a major objection to the belief that quasars were distant galaxies — namely, that no physical mechanism could generate that much energy.
The current picture is that all galaxies may have a supermassive fl hole in their center, and that this fl hole swallows gas and dust in the middle of the galaxies generating huge amounts of radiation — until all the nearby mass has been swallowed and the process shuts off.
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 Corona (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Galactic Corona is the outermost, the most massive and the largest region of the Milky Way Galaxy
In meteorology, a corona is produced by the diffraction of light from either the Sun or the Moon through a cloud of water droplets.
Corona is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City (see Corona, Queens).
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 Comet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
A comet is a relatively small astronomical object similar to an asteroid but composed largely of ice.
Short-period comets are thought to originate in the Kuiper belt, whereas the source of long-period comets is thought to be the Oort cloud.
Ironically, cometary nuclei are among the flest objects known to exist in the solarsystem.
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Milky Way Milky Way, the galaxy of which the sun and solar system are a part, seen as a broad band of light arching across the night sky from horizon to horizon; if not blocked by the horizon, it would be seen as a circle around the entire sky.
Although its motion is not readily apparent, the entire galaxy is rotating about the...
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 Leo I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Leo I (Galaxy), which is a galaxy that orbits the Milky Way Galaxy.
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.
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 Galileo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
This led him to the conclusion that the Moon was "rough and uneven, and just like the surface of the Earth itself", and not a perfect sphere as Aristotle had claimed.
Galileo observed the Milky Way, previously believed to be nebulous, and found it to be a multitude of stars, packed so densely that they appeared to be clouds from Earth.
For gunners, it offered, in addition to a new and safer way of elevating cannons accurately, a way of quickly computing the charge of gunpowder for cannonballs of different sizes and materials.
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 Carina - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Carina is a constellation of the southern sky.
Carina is a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way.
Carinatae is a term within phylogenetic taxonomy referring to birds
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