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A hundred billion stars, and your phone still has better signal.
means The spiral galaxy containing our solar system, visible from Earth as a hazy band of light made up of countless distant stars.
from From the Greek 'galaxias kyklos' (milky circle) — ancient skywatchers looked up, saw that pale smear across the night sky, and thought of spilled milk. Greek myth later dressed it up further: the story goes that it sprayed from the breast of the goddess Hera. The Romans translated it straight into Latin as 'via lactea,' and English just kept the metaphor — 'milky way' is a fairly literal, unbroken hand-me-down from those old milk-streaked legends.
- home address
- orion arm, nothing special, 27000 light-years from center
- future merger
- colliding with andromeda in about 4.5 billion years
- shape
- barred spiral, flatter than a pancake relatively speaking
- name origin
- greeks saw spilled milk, not candy bars