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2. New 3D Map of the Milky Way Shows Our Galaxy's Heart Is ... - AOL

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   A new, incredibly detailed 3D map of the Milky Way has revealed that its central disk is wavy, much like an enormous potato chip.This new picture of the galactic disk — the central region of the ...

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

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   Scientists make most detailed ever infrared map of the Milky Way, changing view of our galaxy. Andrew Griffin. September 26, 2024 at 9:22 AM.

4. Milky Way - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Mission to study the ‘dark side’ of the universe just ...

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   The European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope aims to create the largest 3D map of the universe in the next six years. ... between the stars in our Milky Way galaxy. ... and Edwin Hubble ...

6. Local Group - Wikipedia

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   The term "The Local Group" was introduced by Edwin Hubble in Chapter VI of his 1936 book The Realm of the Nebulae. [11] There, he described it as "a typical small group of nebulae which is isolated in the general field" and delineated, by decreasing luminosity, its members to be M31, Milky Way, M33, Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud, M32, NGC 205, NGC 6822, NGC 185, IC 1613 and ...

7. Large Magellanic Cloud - Wikipedia

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   The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a dwarf galaxy and satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. [7] At a distance of around 50 kiloparsecs (163,000 light-years), [2] [8] [9] [10] 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.

8. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures stunning image of ...

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   Earth is thought to be around 320 light-years away from the North Star, 26,000 light-years away from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and 13.4 billion light-years away from the oldest galaxy ...

9. Messier 2 - Wikipedia

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   Messier 2 is located within our Milky Way galaxy, and is one of the oldest clusters of stars designated to the Milky Way. Like most globular clusters, M2 is found within the galactic halo, specifically in the southern galactic cap. This places it right below the southern pole of the Milky Way. [14]