The Wild History of the Milky Way

by RÜDIGER VAAS

Astronomers are like most people: Often a situation is difficult only because you are in the middle of it and you don't have an overview. However, the scientific problem is much larger - it spans more than 100,000 light-years. Because that's the diameter of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, also called the galaxy. Because the Sun is within the disc-shaped island of stars, when viewed from Earth, it appears as a milky band stretching across the sky.

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