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.

NGC 6705 locatedIn Milky Way
open star cluster NGC 6611 locatedIn Milky Way
subject surface form: NGC 6611
M22 locatedIn Milky Way
Butterfly Cluster locatedIn Milky Way
Messier 6 locatedIn Milky Way
IC 348 locatedIn Milky Way
Barnard 1 locatedIn Milky Way
W3/W4/W5 complex locatedIn Milky Way
W3 Main locatedIn Milky Way
W3 locatedIn Milky Way
IC 1590 locatedIn Milky Way
Swan Nebula locatedIn Milky Way
Barnard 5 locatedIn Milky Way
W5 H II region locatedIn Milky Way
Messier 80 locatedIn Milky Way
M8 locatedIn Milky Way
9 Sagittarii locatedIn Milky Way
Cygnus X complex locatedIn Milky Way
M24 locatedIn Milky Way
IC 4715 locatedIn Milky Way
open cluster IC 1805 locatedIn Milky Way
subject surface form: IC 1805
W4 locatedIn Milky Way
Sharpless 2-190 (for associated nebula) locatedIn Milky Way
subject surface form: Sharpless 2-190
Heart Nebula locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 362 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 6611 locatedIn Milky Way
California Nebula locatedIn Milky Way
GCl 111 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 3766 locatedIn Milky Way
Zeta Tucanae locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 6523 locatedIn Milky Way
47 Tucanae locatedIn Milky Way
WASP-72 locatedIn Milky Way
OGLE-TR-113 locatedIn Milky Way
M69 locatedIn Milky Way
globular cluster Whiting 1 locatedIn Milky Way
subject surface form: Whiting 1
Virgo Overdensity locatedIn Milky Way
Pi Tucanae locatedIn Milky Way
GCl 104 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 6656 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 7000 locatedIn Milky Way
open cluster NGC 6603 locatedIn Milky Way
subject surface form: NGC 6603
NGC 6603 (central cluster often associated) locatedIn Milky Way
subject surface form: NGC 6603
NGC 6231 locatedIn Milky Way
NGC 1976 locatedIn Milky Way