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The Milky Way
The Milky Way contains about a hundred billion stars, including the star nearest to us, our sun.
Written in numbers, that is 100,000,000,000.
If you started counting them, one, two, three… at a rate of one star per second, it would take you 32 years to count to 1 Billion.
It would take 3,200 years to count all the stars in our Milky Way galaxy!
Image credits for this page:
The Milky Way: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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M Y  P L A C E I N T H E U N I V E R S E
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Our solar system is in a galaxy called the Milky Way. When we look up at the sky on a clear night and see the Milky Way, we are only seeing the part of it that is closest to us.
If you can get away from the city lights, to where the stars are bright and clear, the Milky Way will be faintly visible as a grayish band across the sky (this picture makes it look extra-bright).
With binoculars or a telescope you will be able to see that this grey band is composed of many distant stars.
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