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How does the Milky Way galaxy compare to most others, according to Shapely and Oort? (

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Shapley and Oort put the final indignation to the Earth centered theory, by saying that we lived in a fairly typical galaxy amongst hundreds of millions of other.

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The Milky Way is a spiral and most smaller galaxies are large clouds. We also have a supermassive black hole in our core, most spiral galaxies have one.
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