# The Milky Way 

By [HoneySuckle](https://paragraph.com/@honeysuckle) · 2022-11-13

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**A huge collection of stars, dust and gas**. It's called a spiral galaxy because if you could view it from the top or bottom, it would look like a spinning pinwheel. The Sun is located on one of the spiral arms, about 25,000 light-years away from the center of the galaxy.

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*Originally published on [HoneySuckle](https://paragraph.com/@honeysuckle/the-milky-way)*