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12 The Milky Way Galaxy |
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| • | Band of light running around sky in a “great circle” |
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| • | Name from Greeks and Romans:
Milky Circle, Milky Road |
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| • | Galileo saw it was made of thousands of faint stars |
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| • | Great Circle suggests a plane of material with us in plane (like
ecliptic) |
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