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The Milky Way

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Across
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Accidentally discovered the first galaxies
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Galaxy with no obvious structure
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Galaxy with no arms and smooth distribution of stars
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Older stars that occur in halos of a galaxy and move along elongated orbits
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Disk with arms winding from the center
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The section of our galaxy may contain a black hole
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Immense star systems held together by mutual gravity of its member stars
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Nebula that has dust clouds blocking out light of other stars
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Nebula that contains interstellar gas near young stars that glows
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Galaxy with arms winding out of bars
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Center of the disk that is populated by old stars
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Nebula that contains dust which scatters light enough to become visible
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You stars that tend to have circular oribits
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Densely clumped cluster that has the oldest stars
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Band of light made up of millions of stars that we see in the night sky
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Clusters that only have a few hundred stars and are loosely clumped together
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Disk system without spiral structure
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William Herschel's list of celestial objects