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  2. MilkyWay@home - Wikipedia

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    MilkyWay@home is a volunteer computing project in the astrophysics category, running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform. Using spare computing power from over 38,000 computers run by over 27,000 active volunteers as of November 2011, the MilkyWay@home project aims to generate accurate three-dimensional dynamic models of stellar streams in the immediate ...

  3. The Milky Way Project - Wikipedia

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    The Milky Way Project. The Milky Way Project is a Zooniverse project whose main goal is to identify stellar-wind bubbles in the Milky Way Galaxy. Users classify sets of infrared images from the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer ( WISE ). [1] Scientists believe bubbles in these images are the result of young ...

  4. List of crowdsourcing projects - Wikipedia

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    The Milky Way Project is a project that aims to identify bubbles in the Milky Way with users analyzing infrared images from the Spitzer Space Telescope. Mindpixel was an online artificial intelligence project to build a knowledgebase of true/false statements, and ran from 2000 to 2005. Mob4Hire is a mobile testing and market research community ...

  5. Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy - Wikipedia

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    The Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy ( Sgr dSph ), also known as the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy ( Sgr dE or Sag DEG ), is an elliptical loop-shaped satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It contains four globular clusters in its main body, [8] with the brightest of them— NGC 6715 (M54)—being known well before the discovery of the ...

  6. Messier object - Wikipedia

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    The Messier objects are a set of 110 astronomical objects catalogued by the French astronomer Charles Messier in his Catalogue des Nébuleuses et des Amas d'Étoiles ( Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters ). Because Messier was interested only in finding comets, he created a list of those non-comet objects that frustrated his hunt for them.

  7. List of names for the Milky Way - Wikipedia

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    The Milky Way was traditionally used as a guide by pilgrims traveling to the holy site at Compostela, hence the use of "The Road to Santiago" as a name for the Milky Way. [4] Curiously, La Voje Ladee "The Milky Way" was also used to refer to the pilgrimage road.

  8. Illustris project - Wikipedia

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    The original Illustris project was carried out by Mark Vogelsberger [8] and collaborators as the first large-scale galaxy formation application of Volker Springel's novel Arepo code. [9] The Illustris project included large-scale cosmological simulations of the evolution of the universe, spanning initial conditions of the Big Bang, to the ...

  9. The Origin of the Milky Way - Wikipedia

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    The Origin of the Milky Way is a painting by the Italian late Renaissance master Jacopo Tintoretto, in the National Gallery, London, formerly in the Orleans Collection. It is an oil painting on canvas, and dates from ca.1575–1580. According to myth, the infant Heracles was brought to Hera by his half-sister Athena, who later played an ...