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What is the milky way?;

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The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. Its name "milky" is derived from its appearance as a dim glowing band arching across the night sky whose individual stars cannot be distinguished by the naked eye.
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Our galaxy, the Milky Way, appears to be a band of stars in the sky, but it's actually a disk. Hundreds of billions of stars are clumped into lines called spiral arms. Earth is located about half-way between the center of the Milky Way and its outer edge.

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