Milky Way
About Milky Way
The Milky Way or Milky Way Galaxy is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars in other arms of the galaxy, which are so far away that they cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.
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The centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way, sits just above the spout of the teapot shape made by the five brightest stars of Sagittarius.
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More facts about Milky Way
One of Harvard's head astronomers spent years publicly arguing that the Milky Way was the only galaxy in the universe, then realised he was wrong and went on to map 76,000 galaxies.
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No Such Thing As An Unenjoyable Bowel Movement put 2 places on the map.
- Balmoral · United Kingdom
Coordinates: 84.0000, -90.0000