Chowist Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Stargate (device) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_(device)

   A Stargate is a fictional Einstein–Rosen bridge portal device within the Stargate fictional universe that allows practical, rapid travel between two distant locations. The devices first appeared in the 1994 Roland Emmerich film Stargate, and thereafter in the television series Stargate SG-1, Stargate Infinity, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate Universe, and Stargate Origins.

3. Milky Way - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way

   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.

4. Melkweg - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melkweg

   Melkweg (Dutch for "Milky Way") is a music venue and cultural center on Lijnbaansgracht, near Leidseplein in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is housed in a former dairy and includes four music halls as well as a cinema, a restaurant and an exhibition space. It is operated by a nonprofit organisation founded in 1970. [1] [2]

5. MilkyWay@home - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MilkyWay@home

   MilkyWay@home is a volunteer computing project in the astrophysics category, running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform. Using spare computing power from over 38,000 computers run by over 27,000 active volunteers as of November 2011, the MilkyWay@home project aims to generate accurate three-dimensional dynamic models of stellar streams in the immediate ...

6. Large Magellanic Cloud - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Magellanic_Cloud

   The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a dwarf galaxy and satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At a distance of around 50 kiloparsecs (163,000 light-years), the LMC is the second- or third-closest galaxy to the Milky Way, after the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal (c. 16 kiloparsecs (52,000 light-years) away) and the possible dwarf irregular galaxy called the Canis Major Overdensity.

7. The Milky Way Project - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Milky_Way_Project

   The Milky Way Project. The Milky Way Project is a Zooniverse project whose main goal is to identify stellar-wind bubbles in the Milky Way Galaxy. Users classify sets of infrared images from the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer ( WISE ). [1] Scientists believe bubbles in these images are the result of young ...