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Originally Posted by T@T
It's so easy to look at the beauty of the Milky Way and other Galaxy's and yet is so hard to fathom the sheer size of them. 200 billion stars that are separated by trillions of miles from each other.

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This may be a dumb question but how do we get pictures of the Milky Way galaxy when we're in it? There hasn't been a probe that's left the galaxy (as far as I know). Or are the 'pictures' of the Milky Way either graphics or pictures of other similar galaxies?