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Who discovered that when viewed through a telescope the Milky Way is resolved into thousands of individual stars?
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Ancient astronomers, reaching back to the Greeks and Persians, theorized that the Milky Way might be composed of distant stars. (One such, the Arabian scientist Alhazen, proved using parallax measurements that the band had to be much further away than his contemporaries had previously believed.)
But the official discovery that the Milky Way was composed of stars belongs to to Galileo Galilei, who first trained his telescope on that region of the sky in 1610.
Building on this, in 1750 Thomas Wright was the first to propose that the Sun might be part of a much larger body of stars (what we now call a galaxy) and that the Milky Way could be the result of looking at all those other stars head-on.
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