milky way galaxy
- 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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- Galaxy of a Thousand Stars
Our Milky Way galaxy is on the heavy side. We have hundreds of billions of stars, and an even more massive amount of dark matter. [More]
June 13, 2013 - Scientific American - New Video Map Shows Large-Scale Cosmic Structure out to 300 million Light Years
Researchers with the Cosmic Flows project have been working to map both visible and dark matter densities around our Milky Way galaxy up to a distance of 300 million light-years, and they’ve now released this new video map which shows the motions of structures of the nearby Universe in greater detail than ever before. “The [...]
June 13, 2013 - Universe Today