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How do you define the Milky Way?

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The Milky Way is the galaxy containing the Earth seen as a luminous cloud of stars in the night sky. It is a disk-shaped structure about 100,000 light-years in diameter with the Earth about 25,000 light-years from the center believed to be the location of an enormous black hole.

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