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2. Gaia Sky - Wikipedia

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   Gaia Sky is a desktop and VR program that lets you explore the Milky Way and other celestial objects with data from the Gaia mission and other sources. You can ...

3. Radcliffe wave - Wikipedia

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   A clickable map of the nearby circa one-sixth outer sector of the galaxy, thus clearly showing the Local Arm (Orion Arm) and neighboring arms - as well as the Great Orion Nebula (as a very luminous feature of the less bright Orion molecular cloud complex) and broad-clouds North America Nebula (and Pelican Nebula) which is an intrinsic part of the Radcliffe wave.

4. Milky Way - Wikipedia

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   The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with a diameter of 26.8 ± 1.1 kiloparsecs (87,400 ± 3,600 light-years ). It is a barred spiral galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center and many satellite galaxies.

5. Laniakea Supercluster - Wikipedia

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   Laniakea Supercluster is the galaxy supercluster that contains the Milky Way and about 100,000 other nearby galaxies. It was defined in 2014 by a new method based on galaxy velocities and has four subparts: Virgo, Hydra–Centaurus, Great Attractor, and Antlia Wall.

6. Scientists make most detailed ever infrared map of the Milky ...

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   The huge map has already helped changed our view of the galaxy in unexpected ways, according to its creators. In all, it catalogues more than 1.5 billion objects, a vast improvement on previous ...

7. 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. It contains a supermassive black hole of about 4 million solar masses, called Sagittarius A*, which is a compact radio source near the galactic rotational center.

8. Orion Arm - Wikipedia

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   Orion Arm is a minor spiral arm in the Milky Way Galaxy that contains the Solar System and many bright stars and nebulae. Learn about its location, composition, form, and Messier objects in this comprehensive article.

9. Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy - Wikipedia

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   Sgr dSph is a faint, loop-shaped satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, containing four globular clusters and many stellar streams. It is about to collide with the Milky Way and has multiple stellar populations with different ages and metallicities.