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2. Milky Way - Wikipedia

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   In Western culture, the name "Milky Way" is derived from its appearance as a dim un-resolved "milky" glowing band arching across the night sky. The term is a translation of the Classical Latin via lactea, in turn derived from the Hellenistic Greek γαλαξίας, short for γαλαξίας κύκλος (galaxías kýklos), meaning "milky circle".

3. Thomas Wright (astronomer) - Wikipedia

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   Portrait of Thomas Wright. Thomas Wright (22 September 1711 – 25 February 1786) was an English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect and garden designer. He was the first to describe the shape of the Milky Way and to speculate that faint nebulæ were distant galaxies.

4. Bart Bok - Wikipedia

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   Bartholomeus Jan "Bart" Bok (April 28, 1906 – August 5, 1983) was a Dutch-American astronomer, teacher, and lecturer.He is best known for his work on the structure and evolution of the Milky Way galaxy, and for the discovery of Bok globules, which are small, densely dark clouds of interstellar gas and dust that can be seen silhouetted against brighter backgrounds.

5. HD 140283 - Wikipedia

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   HD 140283 (also known as the Methuselah star) is a metal-poor subgiant star about 200 light years away from the Earth in the constellation Libra, near the boundary with Ophiuchus in the Milky Way Galaxy. Its apparent magnitude is 7.205, so it can be seen with binoculars. It is one of the oldest stars known.

6. Massive image of Milky Way sets new photographic record - AOL

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7. Galactic coordinate system - Wikipedia

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   The galactic latitude (b) is perpendicular to the image (i.e. coming out of the image) and also centered on the Sun. The galactic coordinate system is a celestial coordinate system in spherical coordinates , with the Sun as its center, the primary direction aligned with the approximate center of the Milky Way Galaxy , and the fundamental plane ...

8. Supergalactic coordinate system - Wikipedia

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   Galaxies and galaxy clusters < 50 M ly away from Earth plotted in the supergalactic plane. The supergalactic coordinate system is a reference frame for the supercluster of galaxies that contains the Milky Way galaxy, referenced to a local relatively flat collection of galaxy clusters used to define the supergalactic plane.

9. Great Rift (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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   As in all real images from our Arm of the galaxy much is obscured by the Great Rift, dark dust clouds that span from Cygnus to Centaurus. In astronomy, the Great Rift (sometimes called the Dark Rift or less commonly the Dark River) is a dark band caused by interstellar clouds of cosmic dust that significantly obscure the center and most radial ...