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However, it is unclear how widespread this convention is, and the term Milky Way is routinely used in either context. • en. wikipedia.org --- NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is a telescope specially designed to detect X-ray emission from very hot regions of the Universe such as exploded stars, clusters of galaxies, and matter around black holes.
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Some sources hold that, strictly speaking, the term Milky Way should refer exclusively to the band of light that the galaxy forms in the night sky, while the galaxy should receive the full name Milky Way Galaxy, or alternatively the Galaxy.
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However, it is unclear how widespread this convention is, and the term Milky Way is routinely used in either context. • en. wikipedia.org --- NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is a telescope specially designed to detect X-ray emission from very hot regions of the Universe such as exploded stars, clusters of galaxies, and matter around black holes.
WN.com - Articles related to U.N. ends Kyoto CO2 offset drought ahead of key meet 2010
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Some sources hold that, strictly speaking, the term Milky Way should refer exclusively to the band of light that the galaxy forms in the night sky, while the galaxy should receive the full name Milky Way Galaxy, or alternatively the Galaxy.
WN.com - Articles related to U.N. ends Kyoto CO2 offset drought ahead of key meet 2010
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However, it is unclear how widespread this convention is, and the term Milky Way is routinely used in either context. • en. wikipedia.org --- NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is a telescope specially designed to detect X-ray emission from very hot regions of the Universe such as exploded stars, clusters of galaxies, and matter around black holes.
WN.com - Articles related to U.N. ends Kyoto CO2 offset drought ahead of key meet 2010
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Some sources hold that, strictly speaking, the term Milky
WN.com - Articles related to U.N. ends Kyoto CO2 offset drought ahead of key meet 2010
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Shokujo, daughter of the Sun, dwelt with her father on the banks of the Silver River of Heaven, which we call the Milky Way.
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In particular, they have set at rest the long-standing doubts as to the real structure and position of the mysterious nebulæ -- those lazy masses, only two or three of them visible to the unaided eye, which the telescope reveals in almost limitless abundance, scattered everywhere among the stars, but grouped in particular about the poles of the stellar stream or disk which we call the Milky Way.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904
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Irmin was said to possess a ponderous brazen chariot, in which he rode across the sky along the path which we know as the Milky Way, but which the ancient Germans designated as Irmin's Way.
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So the astrologer made observations of the heavens, and marked the aspect of the Silver Stream (which we call the Milky Way), and examined the signs of the Zodiac, -- the _Hwang-tao_, or Yellow Road, -- and consulted the table of the Five _Hin_, or Principles of the Universe, and the mystical books of the alchemists.
Some Chinese Ghosts Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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