Individual #Milky_Way_Galaxy__Milky_Way__Milky_Way_System the galaxy containing the solar system; consists of millions of stars that can be seen as a diffuse band of light stretching across the night sky
instance of: #extragalactic_nebula
member: #Southern_Cross
part: #heliosphere the region inside the heliopause containing the sun and solar system
part: #solar_system__solarsystem the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field
part: #interplanetary_medium interplanetary space including forms of energy and gas and dust
part: #interplanetary_dust microscopic particles in the interplanetary medium
part: #interplanetary_gas a rarefied flow of gas and charged particles (plasma) that stream from the sun and form the solar wind
part: #solar_magnetic_field the magnetic field of the sun
part: #solar_wind__solarwind a stream of protons moving radially from the sun
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