THE MILKY WAY, OUR GALAXY

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Christine Allen

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This article offers a brief overview of conceptions regarding the origin, shape, and size of our galaxy and how they were changed by the discovery of interstellar absorption to evolve into our present-day model of a flattened and rotating disk of stars and gas, surrounded by a tenuous spherical halo and adorned with spiral tendrils.

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Allen, C. (2010). THE MILKY WAY, OUR GALAXY. Ciencias, 95(095). Retrieved from https://revistas.unam.mx/index.php/cns/article/view/14869

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