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

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