The Milky Way Galaxy is a vast pinwheel of stars and gas turning within an enormous cloud of invisible matter. Many generations of stars have formed and died within its disk, enriching our galaxy’s stock …

All stars in the Milky Way move in the galactic potential. Most disk stars move with the same circular direction in more or less co-planar orbits around the galactic center.

To observe the Milky Way, you need clear, dark skies and enough time to adapt your eyes to the dark. Photos of the Milky Way are breathtaking, but they usually show far more detail and color than the …

The Milky Way appears as a light fuzzy band across the night sky, but we also see individual stars scattered in all directions. This gives us a clue to the shape of the galaxy.

• Galileo Galilei first resolved the band of light known as the Milky Way into individual stars with his telescope in 1610, demonstrating the hypothesis of Anaxagoras and Democritus (5th century BCE). • …

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A "God's view" map of Milky Way as seen from far Galactic North (in Coma Berenices). The star-like lines center in a yellow dot representing the position of Sun.