One of the great icons of our times is the word “galaxy,” which appears in the news media and on the Internet almost daily. Most of these majestic denizens of deep space require a telescope to be seen since they lie many millions and even billions of light-years away. But there’s at least one that requires no optical aid to see, being strikingly visible to the unaided eye on a dark clear night — and that’s the galaxy we live in! We’re referring, of course, to the Milky Way.
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