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.

Age: 13.61 billion years

Number of stars: 100–400 billion

Photo Location: Hatchet Pond, New Forest, UK

At the center of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A, with a mass equal to four million suns.

Photo Location: Tefia windmill, Fuerteventura

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