Mrs . Moores class project (outer space, solar system, planets). DO NOT TUCH!!

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Milky Way

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 in which the naked eye cannot distinguish individual stars. From Earth, the Milky Way appears as a band because its disk-shaped structure is viewed from within. Galileo Galilei first resolved the band of light into individual stars with his telescope in 1610. Up until the early 1920s, most astronomers thought that all of the stars in the universe were contained inside of the Milky Way. Following the 1920 Great Debate between the astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis, observations by Edwin Hubble definitively showed that the Milky Way is just one of many billions of galaxies.

It's apparent mass is ~1,250 billion M,

It's Age is13.2 billion years, It has 300 billion stars, It's constellation is Sagittarius.

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Mrs . Moores class project (outer space, solar system, planets). DO NOT TUCH!!

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