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Andromeda (formally titled Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda) is a space opera television series, based on unused material by Gene Roddenberry, developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and produced by Roddenberry's widow, Majel Barrett. [ 2] The series follows Kevin Sorbo as Captain Dylan Hunt of the Systems Commonwealth, an intergalactic government that ...
The Milky Way is approximately 890 billion to 1.54 trillion times the mass of the Sun in total (8.9 × 10 11 to 1.54 × 10 12 solar masses), [ 7][ 8][ 9] although stars and planets make up only a small part of this. Estimates of the mass of the Milky Way vary, depending upon the method and data used.
The Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy ( Sgr dSph ), also known as the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy ( Sgr dE or Sag DEG ), is an elliptical loop-shaped satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It contains four globular clusters in its main body, [ 8] with the brightest of them— NGC 6715 (M54)—being known well before the discovery of the ...
Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) [ 1] was an American astronomer. He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology. [ 2][ 3] Hubble proved that many objects previously thought to be clouds of dust and gas and classified as "nebulae" were actually galaxies ...
April 25, 2010. ( 2010-04-25) –. present. How The Universe Works is a science documentary television series that provides scientific explanations about the inner workings of the universe and everything it encompasses. [ 1][ 2] With the use of computer-generated imagery (CGI) and visual effects, each episode presents and narrates a topic about ...
The Local Group is the galaxy group that includes the Milky Way, where Earth is located. It has a total diameter of roughly 3 megaparsecs (10 million light-years; 9 × 10 19 kilometres ), [ 1] and a total mass of the order of 2 × 10 12 solar masses (4 × 10 42 kg). [ 2] It consists of two collections of galaxies in a "dumbbell" shape; the ...
Japan. Night on the Galactic Railroad (銀河鉄道の夜, Ginga Tetsudō no Yoru), sometimes translated as Milky Way Railroad, Night Train to the Stars or Fantasy Railroad in the Stars, [ 1] is a classic Japanese fantasy novel by Kenji Miyazawa written around 1927. The nine-chapter novel was posthumously published by Bunpodō (文圃堂) in ...
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.