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The 69 pages that link to Milky Way, each with the reason it gives.

• Stellar parallaxNarrower topic: Parallax maps nearby stars and helps establish distances used to chart the Galaxy.

• Large Magellanic CloudNarrower topic: The Cloud is a satellite of the galaxy whose gravity governs its orbit.

• Galactic archaeologyNarrower topic: The field’s best-resolved application reconstructs this galaxy’s formation from individual stars.

• Galactic CenterNarrower topic: The Galactic Center is the innermost region of this galaxy.

• Harlow ShapleyNarrower topic: Shapley’s work transformed estimates of this galaxy’s dimensions and structure.

• Small Magellanic CloudNarrower topic: The Small Magellanic Cloud is one of its gravitationally bound satellite galaxies.

• Light-yearNarrower topic: Its roughly 100,000-light-year diameter shows the unit’s use on galactic scales.

• Galactic coordinate systemNarrower topic: Galactic coordinates align with the disk of the Galaxy that defines their reference plane.

• CruxNarrower topic: Its bright band runs through Crux and frames the Coalsack.

• GaiaNarrower topic: Gaia’s three-dimensional stellar map reveals the structure and history of its host galaxy.

• Dark nebulaNarrower topic: Many dark nebulae appear as silhouettes against the Milky Way’s crowded star fields.

• Omega CentauriNarrower topic: Omega Centauri is gravitationally bound to this galaxy.

• 47 TucanaeNarrower topic: 47 Tucanae is a satellite stellar system within the Milky Way.

• Jan OortNarrower topic: Oort’s studies helped establish its rotation, structure, and scale.

• Perseus ArmNarrower topic: The Perseus Arm is one of the Milky Way’s large-scale spiral features.

• Galactic planeNarrower topic: Its disk supplies the large-scale structure whose central plane is the galactic plane.

• Orion ArmNarrower topic: The Orion Arm is one of the Milky Way’s spiral structures.

• Zone of AvoidanceNarrower topic: Its crowded disk and interstellar material create the obscuring foreground.

• Kepler's SupernovaNarrower topic: Kepler’s Supernova was an explosion within our Galaxy, rather than in a distant galaxy.

• Galactic astronomyNarrower topic: It is the Galaxy whose structure and history galactic astronomy investigates.

• Messier 22Narrower topic: Messier 22 is one of its globular clusters.

• Robert BrownNarrower topic: The source Brown co-discovered anchors the black hole at its center.

• Sagittarius A*Narrower topic: Sagittarius A* lies at the center of this galaxy.

• Scutum–Centaurus ArmNarrower topic: The Scutum–Centaurus Arm is one component of this galaxy’s disk.

• Thick diskNarrower topic: Its thick disk is a well-studied example, resolved into stellar populations and chemical sequences.

• IC 342/Maffei GroupNarrower topic: Its disk both obscures the group and complicates estimates of its galaxies.

• Location of EarthNarrower topic: Earth’s galactic address lies within this galaxy.

• Messier 7Narrower topic: Messier 7 is a Galactic cluster seen against the Milky Way’s star-rich background.

• Westerhout 40Narrower topic: Westerhout 40 is a star-forming complex within the Milky Way.