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The Milky Way Galaxy is an expansive spiral galaxy that is home to our Solar System along with billions of other stars and planets.

The Milky Way Galaxy is an expansive spiral galaxy that is home to our Solar System along with billions of other stars and planets.

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Stretching about 100,000 light-years in diameter, it is a part of a larger group of galaxies known as the Local Group. This majestic galaxy, seen from Earth as a milky band of light arching across the night sky, contains a complex structure of spiral arms wrapped around a dense central bulge, which is believed to harbor a supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A*.


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