The Milky Way is our home galaxy, a vast collection of billions of stars, gas, dust, and dark matter, appearing as a hazy band of light in the night sky. It is a barred spiral galaxy, and our Solar System resides within one of its spiral arms, orbiting a supermassive black hole at its center.
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