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Milky Way is the
galaxy that contains the
Earth.
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This name derives from its appearance as a dim "milky" glowing band
arching across the night sky, in which the naked eye cannot distinguish
individual stars. The term "Milky Way" is a translation of the
Classical Latin via lactea, from the
Hellenistic Greek γαλαξίας κύκλος (pr.
galaxías kýklos, "milky circle").
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The Milky Way appears like a band because it is a disk-shaped structure
being viewed from inside. The fact that this faint band of light is
made up of stars was proven in 1610 when
Galileo Galilei used his telescope to resolve it into individual stars. In the 1920s, observations by astronomer
Edwin Hubble showed that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies.
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