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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 that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.

3. Origin of the Milky Way (Tintoretto) - Wikipedia

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   Download as PDF; Printable version; From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Redirect page. Redirect to: The Origin of the Milky Way; Retrieved from "https: ...

4. Milky Way (chocolate bar) - Wikipedia

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   The Milky Way bar is made of nougat, topped with caramel and covered with milk chocolate. It was created in 1923 by Frank C. Mars and originally manufactured in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The name and taste derived from a then-popular malted milk drink ( milkshake) of the day, not after the astronomical galaxy.

5. Milk of Hera - Wikipedia

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   The Origin of the Milky Way by Jacopo Tintoretto. The myth of the milk of Hera ( Ancient Greek: Ἥρας γάλα, romanized : Hḗras gala) is an ancient Greek myth and explanation of the origin of the Milky Way within the context of creation myths. The standard telling goes that the mythical hero Heracles, as an infant, breastfed from an ...

6. Galactic Center - Wikipedia

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   Galactic Center. 17 45 40.04, −29° 00′ 28.1″. The Galactic Center, as seen by one of the 2MASS infrared telescopes, is located in the bright upper left portion of the image. Marked location of the Galactic Center. The Galactic Center is the barycenter of the Milky Way and a corresponding point on the rotational axis of the galaxy.

7. Stellar kinematics - Wikipedia

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   Barnard's Star is the star with the highest proper motion. [1] In astronomy, stellar kinematics is the observational study or measurement of the kinematics or motions of stars through space. Stellar kinematics encompasses the measurement of stellar velocities in the Milky Way and its satellites as well as the internal kinematics of more distant ...