astronomer Ben Gascoigne(pictured) discovered that the Milky Way's nearest galactic neighbours, the Magellanic Clouds, are twice as far away as first thought?
The Galactic Plane seen by the ATLASGAL survey, divided into sections.
Photograph of the "Great Andromeda Nebula" from 1899, later identified as the Andromeda Galaxy.
Location of the starscape in relation to the rest of the galaxy.
Broad infrared view of our Milky Way Galaxy from the Spitzer Space Telescope created from more than 800,000 frames. This is the most detailed infrared picture of our galaxy to date.
Question 5: Actual proof of the Milky Way consisting of many stars came in 1610 when ________ used a telescope to study the Milky Way and discovered that it was composed of a huge number of faint stars.
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