Milky Way
The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes our Solar
System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a
hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot
be individually distinguished by the naked eye. The term Milky Way is
a translation of the Latin via lactea, from the Greek γαλακτικός
κύκλος (galaktikos kýklos), meaning "milky circle.From Earth, the
Milky Way appears as a band because its disk-shaped structure is
viewed from within. Galileo Galilei first resolved the band of light
into individual stars with his telescope in 1610. Until the early
1920s, most astronomers thought that the Milky Way contained all the
stars in the Universe. Following the 1920 Great Debate between the
astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis, observations by Edwin
Hubble showed that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies.
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