Milky Way
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"There is on high a path very visible in a clear sky, which has the name of the Milky Way, remarkable by its very whiteness. Along this is the way for the gods to the mansions and royal abode of the great Thunderer." --Metamorphoses by Ovid |
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The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System.
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See also
- Baade's Window
- Galactic coordinate system
- MilkyWay@Home, a distributed computing project that attempts to generate highly accurate three-dimensional dynamic models of stellar streams in the immediate vicinity of our Milky Way Galaxy.
- NGC 6744, a galaxy thought to closely resemble the Milky Way
- Oort constants
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