What is the largest rock in the milky way?
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Largest known rock would be earth. Milky way is our galaxy and outside our solar system we can't see "rocks".
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The Milky Way is moving at about 1,342,161 mph towards a galactic cluster known as Abell 3627\nhttp://answerway.com/expertans.php?category=243&expertname=Locii&catnam=Physics\n\nOur galaxy is NOT moving towards the center (or centre) of the universe. The universe has no center!\nhttp://sciastro.astronomy.net/sci.astro.9.FAQ\n\nGod should be spelled B-I-G B-A-N-G\nPBrax@netscape.com
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Debatable. It does just look like a bunch of rocks...what is stranger though, is why NASA keeps doctoring the raw images before releasing them to the public? A good example of this is the 'true' colour of mars. It's not a 'Red Planet' at all-it has a blue sky for one and why are some things masked over? Hmm...
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The biggest known star is the Pistol Star.Its size is about 100 times the Sun!It is ten million times brighter than the sun.It is also largest in terms of volume.   Born up to three million years ago, the Pistol Star may have weighed up to 200 times the mass of the Sun before shedding much of its weight in violent eruptions that began about 4,000 to 6,000 years ago.The Pistol Star is invisible to the naked eye because it is hidden 25,000 light-years away behind great dust clouds in the center of our Milky Way Galaxy.It is located in Pistol Nebula in the centre of Milky Way Galaxy.
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the most massive known star may be eta carinae.  it is estimated to be between 100 and 150 solar masses.  it also seems to be shedding mass at a terrific rate.  this has to be the best answer so far.\n\nread this page:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta_Carinae
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It's more far-out than that...\n\nNot only is the earth rotating on its axis, it's moving in its orbit around the sun.  The sun (and us along with it) is orbiting the center of the milky way galaxy.  The milky way galaxy is moving through space in a gravitational dance with the local group of galaxies...and while all of this is going on, space is expanding.\nFrom the point of view of an observer at rest, your total velocity when all those factors are combined would be something around 160,000 km/hour.  Yippee! :)
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The Milky Way galaxy, our galaxy, is 80-100 thousand light years in diameter, and about 3000 light years thick.\n\nA light year is the distance light travels in one year, so it is a measure of distance and not time.  One light year equals about 5,878,499,810,000 miles.
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"Our own Milky Way, a typical giant spiral galaxy, includes at least 100 billion stars in its diameter." \n100 billion\n\nEncyclopedia Britannica. Astronomy. 2000. "There are about 100 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy" \n100 billion\n\nEddington, A. S. The Interior of a Star. 1926. "The Sun belongs to a system containing some 3,000 million stars." 3 billion\n\nBoorstein, Daniel J. Discovery of the World. New York: Random House, 1983: 320. "...the Galaxy is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters."\ninnumerable\n\nButterworth, Paul. Stars in Our Galaxy. Ask a High-Energy Astronomer. 1998. "We can only see a few thousand stars at most with our unaided eyes. These are a mixture of stars which are nearby, and bright stars which are further away; but they are only a tiny fraction of the 100,000,000,000 stars in our own galaxy." \n100 billion
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da name uh da galaxy is da Milky Way.. in..
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==\nYes Milky Way is name of our galaxy.\n\nThere are different stories behind the term Milky Way.\n\nThe most authentic and widely accepted story is the fact that Greeks thought that the band of thickly populated stars in the night sky is the path from heavens made up of milk.\n\nSome other believed the band of most stars as the path of angles or gods which has become bright like milk. \n\nThere are also some other stories. One thing common to all them is that the band of stars is a path or way so the name become milky way.
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It depends so much in what you consider to be an object. If a galaxy is one object, then the largest supernova will be only a very small object compared to it.\n\n\nChandra x ray observatory took images on 2003 of two distant massive galaxies that are between the largest objects scientists have found. \n\nhttp://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0305/21construction/
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the sun is not the largest star in the milky way galaxy. just so you know. there are many more stars larger than it. and in a few billion years, the sun will go supernova, expanding many millions of miles to engulf all of the smaller planets, like mercury and Earth.
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I would love to visit a planet orbiting a star that has strayed away from the plane of our galaxy. Imagine the night sky lit up by an entire galaxy - a great luminous spiral looming overhead.\n\nThe Valles Marineris must be quite magnificent too. It is largest known canyon in our solar system. Like Grand Canron, much more vast and red.
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The nearest galaxies to the Milky Way are two Magellanic clouds, LMC and SMC, and they are UNFATHOMABLY far away.  LMC is 50 kpc away, or about 160,000 LY.  JUST ONE LY is SIX TRILLION MILES.  So 960,000,000,000,000,000 miles away.
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"...Small stones to a few millimeters in size are slowed down so much by the atmosphere that they end up drifting slowly to the ground. \n\nPieces of space rock of a few millimeters to a few centimeters burn up completely in the atmosphere of the Earth before they can reach the ground, and can be seen at night as falling stars. If it is sufficiently dark and clear outside, then you can see a few falling stars every night. \n\nIf the rock is bigger, then part of it can survive the trip through the atmosphere and reach the ground as a meteorite. If the stone weighs less than a few tons, then it doesn't fall very fast anymore in the end, and it makes a small dent in the ground.   "\n\nhttp://www.phys.uu.nl/~strous/AA/en/antwoorden/meteorieten.html
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The universe contains approximately  200,000,000,000,000,000,000 (200 BILLION BILLION) stars in galaxies scattered throughout the universe.  Our solar system is located in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy.  The Milky Way galaxy contains approx. 200,000,000,000 stars.  \n\nThe universe is the largest of the three organizational structures in your question.  \n\nHope this helps!
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The heaviest (technically, the most massive) things in the universe are black holes.  Since nothing can get out of a black hole, whatever they suck in, stays in.  Most galaxies have black holes at the center, and since the center of galaxies can be a pretty crowded place, a lot of stars can get sucked into these black holes.  \n\nThe largest known black hole inhabits the core of M87, a giant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo. The M87 black hole appears to be about three billion times the mass of the Sun, with a diameter of about 11 billion miles (18 billion km) - almost twice the diameter of the orbit of Pluto, the most-distant planet in our solar system.  That's big!\n\nDoesn't it seem weird that we can weigh something trillions of miles away from us?  The way scientists weigh distant stars, galaxies, and black holes is to look at the motion of things near them.  Gravity makes things move - fall and orbit - and by looking at how things move near a galaxy or black hole, scientists can get a pretty good idea how strong its gravity is.  And that tells them how massive it is - tricky, eh?