What is the name of the galaxy we live in?
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Our galaxy is called the Milky Way.
It is a big spiral galaxy. You know, with arms that spin around a bright center. Our sun and our planet Earth are not in the middle of it. We are on one of these arms, kind of on the edge. It's really huge. It has billions of stars, maybe 100 to 400 billion. And scientists think there are even more planets.
On a very clear night, if you are far away from city lights, you can actually see a part of it. It looks like a faint, milky band of light across the sky. This is how it got the name. It is pretty amazing to think about.