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A galaxy is a huge collection of gas, dust, and billions of stars and their solar systems, all held together by gravity. We live on a planet called Earth that is part of our solar system.
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- Gazing at the dark night sky, you see stars scattered in all directions. There might be a few more here than there are there, but in general, the stars are distributed more or less evenly on the night sky.
- However, if you find yourself in a particularly dark spot, you'll see a faint band of light across the sky. And if you were to point a telescope in the direction of this band, you'd see many many more stars.
- Italian scientist Galileo Galilei was the first one to do this, thereby confirming the more than 2,000-year-old belief that the band, which for millennia had been called the 'Milky Way' from Greek galaxías kýklos, consisted of innumerable distant stars.
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