Our galaxy, the Milky Way, as seen from Gozo. With a diameter of around 120,000 light-years and over 200 billion stars, our disk-shaped home is incredibly large, but still only considered medium sized among its peers.

Photo: Dr Joseph Caruana, University of Malta, Institute of Space Sciences and Astronomy (ISSA) and the Department of Physics.

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