Which NASA space telescope helped reveal the Milky Way's central bar in infrared surveys?
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Spitzer Space Telescope
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Which NASA space telescope helped reveal the Milky Way's central bar in infrared surveys?
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Spitzer Space Telescope
What supernova remnant is one component of the Sagittarius A radio source?
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Sagittarius A East
Which dense cluster near the Galactic Center is named for five infrared sources?
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Quintuplet Cluster
What vast underdense region of space lies adjacent to the Local Group?
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Local Void
What are the constants A and B used to describe local Milky Way rotation called?
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Oort constants
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What supernova remnant is one component of the Sagittarius A radio source?
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Sagittarius A East
Which dense cluster near the Galactic Center is named for five infrared sources?
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Quintuplet Cluster
What vast underdense region of space lies adjacent to the Local Group?
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Local Void
What are the constants A and B used to describe local Milky Way rotation called?
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Oort constants
What radio line first mapped the Milky Way's spiral structure after 1952?
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21-centimeter line
What gas stream extends behind the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds?
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Magellanic Stream
What is the third-largest galaxy in the Local Group, after Andromeda and the Milky Way?
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Triangulum Galaxy
Which galaxy cluster forms the heart of the Virgo Supercluster?
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Virgo Cluster
What plane does the bright band of the Milky Way trace across the sky?
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Galactic plane
Which supercluster includes the Virgo Supercluster and the Milky Way?
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Laniakea Supercluster