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Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, stretches across the night sky like a river of stars!
A is a of , gas, , and , all by . Our is called the Way. On a very , you can see of it as a of the sky — that is the of .
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The Way between 100 and 400 . Our Sun is just one of them — a in one of the .
Our Way is so that , the thing in the , about 100,000 to from one to the other. Our Sun out from the , and it around 230 to make one lap around the . The the Sun was in this , had not yet !
in . , like the Way, have of out from a . are , with . have no set at all, because they have been out of by a .
Spiral galaxies have sweeping arms of stars spinning slowly around a bright glowing centre.
🃏 Flip each card to learn about galaxy shapes.
Tap each card to see the answer.
🗂️ Sort each description into the right galaxy shape.
Has curved arms from a bright centre
The Milky Way is one of these
A smooth, rounded blob of older stars
No particular shape at all
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The to is the , about 2.5 . One is 9.5 — is far!
At the of every a . The one at the of the Way is called A*, and it about as much as our Sun. Far from the , it at the while of around it.
The Andromeda Galaxy is our closest large neighbour, holding over a trillion stars inside it!
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In about 4.5 , the Way and will and into one new . The are so out that very few will into each other!
there are at two in the . That there are more out there than there are of on all of put . The is — and every one of those is with of .
✍️ Fill in the galaxy facts.
Our is called the . Its is the . At the of most a .
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Galaxies Quiz
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