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Visible as a light stream across the sky.
In good, dark skies you can see many individual stars with the unaided eye, but most are
indistinguishable without a telescope or a pair of binoculars. Watch out, you may
find it awesome!
- closer inspection with binoculars shows millions
of stars
- A spiral
(probably a barred spiral).
- About 100,000 light-years across.
- About 200 Billion (200 Thousand
Million) stars.
- We are about 30,000 light-years from the
center
- We orbit the center once every 240 million
years, about.
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