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2. 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.

3. List of Wolf-Rayet stars - Wikipedia

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   1.1 Milky Way Galaxy. ... Appearance. move to sidebar hide ... Present in the Galactic Center region of Milky Way. WR 102ka (Peony Star) 26,000: 1: Ofpe/WN9:

4. 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. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its central massive object is a supermassive black hole of about 4 million solar masses , which is called Sagittarius A* , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] a compact radio source which is almost exactly at the galactic rotational ...

5. Webb telescope captures outskirts of Milky Way in ... - AOL

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   While Earth is located about 26,000 light-years from what's known as the galactic center, the outer portions of the Milky Way are even further, at about 58,000 light-years from our galaxy's ...

6. Earliest building blocks of the Milky Way discovered near its ...

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   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.

7. Satellite galaxies of the Milky Way - Wikipedia

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   The Milky Way has several smaller galaxies gravitationally bound to it, as part of the Milky Way subgroup, which is part of the local galaxy cluster, the Local Group. [ 1 ] There are 61 small galaxies confirmed to be within 420 kiloparsecs (1.4 million light-years ) of the Milky Way, [ 2 ] but not all of them are necessarily in orbit, and some ...

8. Researchers find binary stars orbiting near Milky Way's ... - AOL

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   The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is associated with wanton destruction, but a recent discovery throws that assumption into question. A team of international ...

9. List of luminous blue variable stars - Wikipedia

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   Appearance. move to sidebar hide This is a list ... Milky Way galaxy (candidate LBVs) Star system Nebula Median distance Stars in system Spectral type