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We live in a giant spiral galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, of 100,000 light years diameter and a mass of roughly a trillion solar masses; our Sun is one of several 100 billions of stars of the Milky Way. ... The linear size of galaxies also scatters, ranging from small dwarfs of few thousands of light years diameter (like...
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www.seds.org/messier/galaxy.html
www.seds.org/messier/galaxy.html
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Milky Way - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Milky Way , or simply the Galaxy , is the galaxy in which the Solar System is located. It is a barred spiral galaxy that is part of the Local Group of galaxies. It is one of billions of galaxi...
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Galaxy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system that consists of stars and stellar remnants, an interstellar medium of gas and dust, and an important but poorly understood component tentatively ...
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The disk of the Milky Way galaxy is about 100,000 light years in diameter (one light year is about 9.5 x 1015 meters), but only about 1000 light years thick. ... Imagine Home | Ask an Astrophysicist | Size of the Milky Way...
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imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980317b.ht...
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To flip the example around for you, I could also say it this way: If you could somehow shrink the entire universe around you, while you stay the same size and the Milky Way galaxy shrinks in front of you down to the size of a frisbee..
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www.motodom.com/Galaxy.htm
www.motodom.com/Galaxy.htm
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A photograph of part of the Milky Way, courtesy of NASA ... Comparing this object to our picture of the Milky Way, we see that the Milky Way appears to have a far denser distribution of matter, and so we expect that our calculation of the dimension of the Milky Way will give an answer which ... Size of box, s Number of boxes, Ns...
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Our own Galaxy - the Milky Way ... The spiral galaxy M83 which is believed to be similar in size and shape to the Milky Way (AAO) ... A view of the Milky Way from the southern hemisphere - towards the centre of our galaxy (AAO)
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www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/gal_milky.html
www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/gal_milky.html
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A bigger Milky Way means that it could be crashing violently into the neighbouring Andromeda galaxy sooner than predicted — though still billions of years from now. ... The paper makes sense, but isn't the final word on the size of the Milky Way, said Mark Morris, an astrophysicist at the University of California Los...
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www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/01/06/milky-way-mass.h...
www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/01/06/milky-way-mass.html
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These pages bring together several data sets to visualize images of our Milky Way galaxy in various wavelength regions. ... The site's intent is to present and explain how data across the electromagnetic spectrum are used by astronomers to learn about the Milky Way's shape, size, and composition.
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