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The New Milky Way

Science, 1983
Our understanding of the large-scale structure of the Milky Way has undergone considerable revision during the past few years. The Galaxy is larger and much more massive than was previously supposed; the newly discovered mass consists of nonluminous matter which is likely to be the dominant form of matter in the universe.
L, Blitz, M, Fich, S, Kulkarni
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The Milky Way

2020
There are few celestial sights that will elicit such a raw and primal emotion within you as seeing the Milky Way from a dark sky site. It, like totality of a solar or lunar eclipse, leaves you in complete awe and wonderment. Unfortunately, it is difficult in North America to find truly dark skies to see our home galaxy.
Françoise Combes, James Lequeux
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The Milky Way

2017
Most of us are familiar with the Milky Way. We may be lucky enough to live in a dark location and can see the misty band of light that stretches across the sky (see Fig. 1.1). Others may live in an urban location and so can only glimpse the Milky Way as a faint hazy patch that envelopes several constellations.
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The Milky Way, Transformed

Scientific American, 2016
The article focuses on the development of a map of the Milky Way galaxy from the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft. It states the dataset provides a preliminary position of one billion stars and the sideways motions and distances of the brightest two million stars in the sky.
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The Milky Way

2004
As mentioned earlier, all of the stars we see unaided, or even with binoculars or small telescopes, belong to our Galaxy, usually known as The Milky Way. It is made up of one hundred thousand million (100,000,000,000) stars, some grouped together in clusters, and interstellar matter, dust and gas.
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The Milky Way

Nature, 1947
WRITERS on astronomical subjects find it comparatively easy to give a popular or semi-popular description of such a parochial affair as the solar system, but not so easy to provide a similar description of the Galaxy. The book under notice is undoubtedly the best of the semi-popular type that has been produced on this subject, and it presents the ...
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