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What Is the Milky Way Actually Made Of?

The Milky Way is like a big candy jar full of stars and space stuff. If you could look inside it, you'd see billions of tiny lights, those are stars! There’s also gas, dust, and even dark matter floating around them, all mixed in like ingredients in a cake.

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  1. A jar full of candies is like the Milky Way, each candy is a star.
  2. The air between your fingers when you hold two hands apart is like space dust.
  3. You're made from the same stuff that's in stars.

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Categories: Space · galaxy· astronomy· space composition