File:Milky way.png
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English: The Milky Way Galaxy is the barred spiral galaxy that contains the Solar System - A 200,000 ly wide visible disc, with a dark matter halo 10 times wider - 100 to 400 billion stars and at least that number of planets - Centered by a supermassive black hole of 4,100 million solar masses (27,000 ly away) - The constant rotation speed of stars and gases at various distances from the center (220 km/s) suggests that about 90% of the mass is invisible (dark matter) - Moving as a whole at 600 km/s - Second in size in the Local Group, which forms part of the Virgo Supercluster, which is a component of the Laniakea Supercluster - |
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| Author | Pablo Carlos Budassi |
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| current | 17:57, 23 September 2020 | | 1,229 × 1,229 (1.16 MB) | Celestialobjects | Uploaded own work with UploadWizard |
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