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The song says that we are "thirty thousand light years from galactic central point", again correct to within one significant figure of 25,000 light years from the centre of the Milky Way. [12] The song also states that the galaxy is "a hundred thousand light years side to side".
Space Songs is an album in the "Ballads For The Age of Science" or "Singing Science" series of scientific music for children from the late 1950s and early 1960s.Songs were written by Hy Zaret (lyrics) and Lou Singer (music).
Daisuke Kashiwa's song "Stella" is program music based on the novel. [11] Fantasy Railroad in the Stars (銀河鉄道の夜) by Kagaya Yutaka (DVD, 2007) is screened in planetariums. The DVD features the story of a boy dreaming of travelling by train through the Milky Way, and the story is narrated by the voice actress Kuwashima Houko.
Galactic Tick Day is an awareness and education day that celebrates the movement of the Solar System around the Milky Way galaxy. [1] [2] [3] [4]The day occurs at a regular interval of 1.7361 years (or 633.7 days), [5] which is called a galactic tick.
Milky Way: Many European languages have borrowed, directly or indirectly, the Greek name for the Milky Way, including English and Latin. Road to Santiago: the Milky Way was traditionally used as a guide by pilgrims traveling to the holy site at Compostela, hence the use of "The Road to Santiago" as a name for the Milky Way. [58]
The Milky Way and Andromeda complete their merger into a giant elliptical galaxy called Milkomeda or Milkdromeda [11] 500 gal The Universe's expansion causes all galaxies beyond the Milky Way's Local Group to disappear beyond the cosmic event horizon, removing them from the reachable universe [12] 2000 gal
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to spot a Milky Way-like galaxy that formed soon after the big bang created the universe.
Its plot follows a young cat named Giovanni (voiced by Mayumi Tanaka), who journeys on a train with his classmate Campanella (Chika Sakamoto) through the Milky Way galaxy. Produced independently by the animation studio Group TAC, the film was released by Nippon Herald Films on July 13, 1985. It was awarded the Ōfuji Noburō Award in the same year.