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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Merope Nebula hasParentGalaxy Milky Way
HIP 17608 isPartOf Milky Way
Barnard's Galaxy isNearbyTo Milky Way
Delta Cancri belongsTo Milky Way
Messier 67 locatedIn Milky Way
Gamma Cancri belongsTo Milky Way
23 Tauri locatedIn Milky Way
HR 1156 isPartOf Milky Way
Andromeda XXX isBeyond Milky Way
Epsilon Crucis belongsTo Milky Way
Mass Effect video game series setting Milky Way
subject surface form: Mass Effect
this entity surface form: Milky Way galaxy
Sidereal Messenger describes Milky Way
Kaylon 1 partOf Milky Way
this entity surface form: Milky Way galaxy (in-universe)
Star Trek: Enterprise narrativeLocation Milky Way
this entity surface form: Milky Way Galaxy
IceCube Neutrino Observatory hostStar Milky Way
this entity surface form: Milky Way Galaxy
Fred Saberhagen's Berserker series setting Milky Way
this entity surface form: Milky Way galaxy
Tau Ceti f galacticLocation Milky Way
Sirius belongsTo Milky Way
Foundation Trilogy setIn Milky Way
this entity surface form: Milky Way Galaxy
Lensman series setting Milky Way
this entity surface form: Milky Way galaxy
Foundation (1942 short story) setting Milky Way
this entity surface form: Milky Way Galaxy
Galactic Center series setting Milky Way
this entity surface form: Milky Way galaxy
Sailing Bright Eternity settingLocation Milky Way
this entity surface form: Milky Way galaxy
Crux liesIn Milky Way
Centaurus partOf Milky Way
this entity surface form: Milky Way region of the sky
Asimov universe setIn Milky Way
this entity surface form: Milky Way galaxy
OGLE-III hostGalaxyFields Milky Way
Messier 16 locatedInGalaxy Milky Way
Messier 30 locatedIn Milky Way
Bas notableWork Milky Way
Beta Capricorni locatedIn Milky Way
this entity surface form: Milky Way galaxy
Gamma Capricorni hostGalaxy Milky Way
Gamma Capricorni locatedIn Milky Way
this entity surface form: Milky Way galaxy
first binary pulsar PSR B1913+16 hostGalaxy Milky Way
subject surface form: PSR B1913+16
first millisecond pulsar PSR B1937+21 hostGalaxy Milky Way
subject surface form: PSR B1937+21
M 13 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 6205 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 6205 hostGalaxy Milky Way
Gliese 581c belongsToGalaxy Milky Way
Gliese 581 star system partOf Milky Way
Star Control setting Milky Way
this entity surface form: Milky Way galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy primarySetting Milky Way
this entity surface form: Milky Way galaxy
NGC 3372 partOfGalaxy Milky Way
Trumpler 14 locatedIn Milky Way