Milky Way

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The Milky Way is the barred spiral galaxy that contains our Solar System and hundreds of billions of other stars.

All labels observed (18)

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Predicate Object
instanceOf astronomical object
barred spiral galaxy
galaxy
age about 13.6 billion years
approximateDiameter about 100,000 light-years
about 30 kiloparsecs
approximateMass about 1 trillion solar masses
about 10^12 solar masses
approximateStellarCount about 100–400 billion stars
hundreds of billions of stars
contains Earth
Norma Arm
Orion Arm
Perseus Arm
Milky Way center
surface form: Sagittarius A*

Scutum–Centaurus Arm
Sun
central bar
cosmic rays
dark matter halo
exoplanets
galactic bulge
galactic disk
galactic halo
globular clusters
interstellar medium
molecular clouds
open star clusters
planetary systems
spiral arms
stars
supermassive black hole
coordinateSystem galactic coordinates
distanceToAndromedaGalaxy about 2.5 million light-years
formationEpoch shortly after the Big Bang
galacticCenterConstellation Sagittarius
galacticCenterObject Milky Way center
surface form: Sagittarius A*
galacticPlaneInclinationToEcliptic about 60 degrees
hasPart Solar System
hasSatellite Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy
Large Magellanic Cloud
Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
Small Magellanic Cloud
memberOf Local Group
morphologicalType SBbc
neighborOf Andromeda Galaxy
Triangulum Galaxy
observedIn X-ray wavelengths
infrared wavelengths
optical wavelengths
radio wavelengths
partOf Laniakea Supercluster
rotationPeriodAtSun about 225–250 million years
shape barred spiral
solarOrbitName Galactic year
SunDistanceFromCenter about 27,000 light-years
about 8 kiloparsecs
SunLocation Orion Arm
visibleFromEarth as a band of light in the night sky

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Collinder 140 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 1499 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 2359 locatedIn Milky Way
LBN 25 locatedIn Milky Way
W43 Main locatedIn Milky Way
W43 South locatedIn Milky Way
Epsilon Microscopii locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 5286 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 6664 locatedIn Milky Way
IC 1795 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 6712 locatedIn Milky Way
IC 1848 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 6809 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 6637 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 6681 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 6864 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 2360 locatedIn Milky Way
21 Tauri locatedIn Milky Way
HR 1178 locatedIn Milky Way
Flamsteed designation 21 Tauri locatedIn Milky Way
subject surface form: 21 Tauri
Medusa Nebula locatedIn Milky Way
HIP 62434 locatedIn Milky Way
Galactic anticenter locatedIn Milky Way
Zeta Orionis locatedIn Milky Way
V* del Ori locatedIn Milky Way
SAO 132220 locatedIn Milky Way
Messier79 locatedIn Milky Way
subject surface form: Messier 79
Plaskett’s Star locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 2239 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 2324 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 2244 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 2301 locatedIn Milky Way
SAO 113271 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 2232 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 2254 locatedIn Milky Way
Gamma Monocerotis locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 2506 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 2343 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 2345 locatedIn Milky Way
Polaris locatedIn Milky Way
SAO 98031 locatedIn Milky Way
59 Cygni as a spectroscopic binary locatedIn Milky Way
subject surface form: 59 Cygni
Nova Cygni 1886 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 2632 locatedIn Milky Way
HIP 20889 locatedIn Milky Way