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Research: Discovering the Milky Way. Humans have been looking at the Milky Way since long before recorded history, but only in the past century did we verify the true shape of the galaxy and our location within it. Learn more about how conceptions of the Milky Way developed through history. What names did different cultures give the band of light they saw? What stories did they tell about it? How have ideas about the galaxy changed in the past few centuries? Write a two- to three-page summary of your findings.
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Research: Discovering the Milky Way. Humans have been looking at the Milky Way since long before recorded history, but only in the past century did we verify the true shape of the galaxy and our location within it. Learn more about how conceptions of the Milky Way developed through history. What names did different cultures give the band of light they saw? What stories did they tell about it? How have ideas about the galaxy changed in the past few centuries? Write a two- to three-page summary of your findings.
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The Milky Way is the galaxy in our solar system. It is a band of light seen at night in the sky, the stars that form cannot be described from the naked eye. Galileo was the 1st to resolve the band of light into individual stars from his telescope in 1610. Till 1920 the astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the only stars in the universe. In 1920 the two astronomers showed the observation by Edwin Hubble that the Milky Way is one of many galaxies.