Galaxies

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The distance of the Milky Way galaxy from edge to edge is about ________.

All the stars you can see in the night sky with the naked eye are a part of our home galaxy, the _______.

Ancient peoples saw a band of stars stretching across the sky and thought it looked like a river of milk. This is known as the ________ .

What do you call a huge collections of stars, gas, and dust that travel together through space?

The Milky Way galaxy contains about ________ stars.

Astronomers classify galaxies based on _______.

Galaxies with no regular shape are called _______ galaxies and are smaller and fainter than other types of galaxies.

This type of galaxy looks like a slightly flattened ball and has older stars than other types of galaxies.