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BASIC INFO
The Milky Way is the barred spiral galaxy that contains our Solar System. It is home to billions of stars, including our Sun, as well as planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and a variety of other celestial objects.
ADVANCED INFO
Size: 100,000 light-years across
Mass: 1.5 trillion solar masses
Distance from Earth: 0 (Earth's home galaxy)
Galaxy Cluster: Local Group
Age: 13.61 billion years old
Stars: 100 billion
SOME RANDOM FACTS
The Milky Way is a cannibal. It has eaten other galaxies before.
The galactic halo of the Milky Way extends far beyond its visible disk and contains a sparse population of stars, as well as dark matter.
The Milky Way is home to over 150 globular clusters, dense spherical groups of stars that orbit the galactic center.
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