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Major Galaxies
The closest galaxy to the Milky Way is
Andromeda, which is around 2.6 million light
years away from us. Many galaxies are more
than 100,000 light years across in distance. It
takes over two hundred million years for the
sun to orbit the centre of the galaxy. This is
called a galactic year.Galaxies are sprawling
systems of dust, gas, dark matter, and
anywhere from a million to a trillion stars that
are held together by gravity and astronomers
have discovered a distant galaxy. The Galaxy
consists of over
100 billion stars.
He is one of a small
galaxy of Dutch
stars on
German
television.
How is Milky way galaxies
Created?
The evolution of the Milky Way began when
clouds of gas and dust started collapsing,
pushed together by gravity. First stars sprung
up from the collapsed clouds, those that we see
today in the globular clusters. The spherical
halo emerged soon after, followed by the flat
galactic disk.
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