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Default 08-20-2005, 11:39 PM

If you look in the night sky to teh south east I believe, you will see a band of stars go across the sky. This is other stars in our galaxy as you look at it head on, as if looking at the edge of a piece of paper. It was named "Milky Way" because it looked like spilled milk across the sky. We are on the outside of the milky way, looking in pretty much. We can see these other stars. The milky way is 100,000 light years across. We're probably 20,000 from the edge, so we're looking through 80,000 light years of space.

If you can find Orion the Hunter, you can pinpoint the center of the galaxy. On his belt where his sword comes down, there is a faint cluster of stars that points directly to the center of our galaxy.
  
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