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Milky Way

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Our home galaxy, the vast spiral of the Milky Way, is enclosed within a cube 100,000 light years across. From this distance we can see only the brightest stars within the galaxy – stars of the Sun’s brightness and dimmer are assumed within a mottled glow, interspersed with the dark silhouettes of opaque dust lanes and glowing clouds of dust and gas.


Our local group of galaxies.

Universe: The story of the Universe, from earliest times to our continuing discoveries

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