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The Milky Way was formed shortly after the big bang, like all of the galaxies. After the initial expansion, areas that were denser than others were pulled together by their own gravity ... hydrogen gas were pulled together to form stars and clusters of stars.
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Astronomers think that the Milky Way formed out of the collapse of a large cloud of gas, similar in some respects to the way that stars form.
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If you go to a really dark location in the country, late on a summer night, you will see how the Milky Way got its name. There are so many stars, so close together and so far away, that they look like a creamy band across the sky.
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... , the Milky Way would look very similar to the way it does here on Earth. It would be brighter and you would have an easier time seeing the distinct stars, but otherwise it would look the same.
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... leave our solar system and think of our galaxy, the Milky Way, it is so much more immense that we have to use different ways to describe distances. So we use light years. That ... the Milky Way is 100,000 light years across. We are about 20,000 light years from its edge.
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Navigation outside of the Milky Way wouldn't be difficult since we have reasonably good maps of objects like quasars that ... provided by Dirk Terrell, Ph.D.
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How our Sun ends its life all depends on the amount of mass or stuff it starts out with. A star like our Sun has ... the next closest star over 4.28 light years away, you can easily see that the Sun will have very little influence over the life of the other 400 billion stars found in our Milky Way Galaxy.
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... in space even if they can't be seen. If you somehow left the galaxy you could find your way home again.
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... real noticeable boundary, because the atmosphere gets thinner in a gradual way. The US Air Force decided to use 50 miles as the measurement point, which is about the height at which the ionosphere begins, and ... 2004.
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... draw themselves together the same way that our Sun did. However, because they were so much smaller and less dense than the dust-cloud that formed the Sun, they did not generate the same intense heat and pressure that is needed to create stars. Instead they formed planetisimals that continued to ...
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