milky way
- n the galaxy containing the solar system; consists of millions of stars that can be seen as a diffuse band of light stretching across the night sky
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- Book Review: The Milky Way, An Insider’s Guide
About 70 pages into The Milky Way, An Insider’s Guide, a strange craving for hamburgers overtook me. (...)Read the rest of Book Review: The Milky Way, An Insider’s Guide (550 words) © Elizabeth Howell for Universe Today, 2013. | Permalink | No comment | Post tags: Book Reviews, the milky way: an insider's guide, william h. [...]
June 18, 2013 - Universe Today - 'Titan' falls: Today's top supercomputer is owned by China, powered by Intel
China has regained the crown for the fastest supercomputer on the planet, according to the semiannual Top500 list, which claims that the Milky Way-2 supercomputer has doubled the performance of the previous leader, the American "Titan" supercomputer, in just six months. Milky Way-2, also known as "Tianhe-2," clusters together more than 32,000 Intel Xeon microprocessors as well as more than 48 ...
June 17, 2013 - PC World - Milky Way Neighbor Galaxies Get Amazing Portraits in UV
Stitching together thousands of images, astronomers have created the most detailed ultraviolet light portraits of the Milky Way's two closest neighbors: the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.
June 14, 2013 - SPACE.com via Yahoo! News