Kilo
Kilo may refer to:
- kilo-, a prefix meaning a thousand
- Kilo, Espoo, a district of Espoo, Finland
- Kilo railway station, a commuter rail network in Kilo, Espoo, Finland
- KILO, a Colorado radio station
- Kilo-class submarine, the NATO reporting name for a type of Russian submarine
- Kilo Ali or Kilo, a rapper from Atlanta, Georgia
- Kilogram or kilogramme, a metric unit of mass
- Men's 1 km Time Trial or Kilo, a cycling track time trial
- Kilo, the letter K in the NATO phonetic alphabet
- El Kilo, an album by the Cuban hip hop group Orishas
- El Kilo (song), a song from this album
- Kilo is a common Arabic family name including:
- Michel Kilo, Syrian Christian writer and human rights activist
- Wiz Kilo, a Syrian Canadian hip hop and electronic artist
- Kilo Kish, an American singer/songwriter
Stand outside on a clear night and look up. How far can you see? How much can you see? Have you ever seen the Milky Way? On very special dark nights, if you live far enough from city lights, you can see a broad swatch of lights across the heavens. It's a view in toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy where the stars seem so close together that they blend into a milky white glow. Since our solar system rotates around a pale star in one of our galaxy's spiral arms, we are a long eay from the center of the action. We're in the suburbs of our own galaxy, a tiny spot in a sea of roughly two hundred billion stars. Two hundered billion stars -- but even on the darkest night with the clearest skies, our human eyes can only actually see about three thousand of them at any given moment. There are less than nine thousand stars visible from earth with the naked eye, and those are "nearby" in our own Milky Way. We used to think that the earth was the center of the universe, that the sun and all the stars rotated arount it. But as soon as the telescope