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Milky Way

By cmedl7
  • Discovery

    Discovery

    Galileo discovered that the Milky Way is made of many stars.
  • Milky Way

    Milky Way

    Immanuel Kant theorized that the galaxy has a planar structure, some nebulae might actually be entire other galaxies or island universe.
  • Milky Way

    Milky Way

    William and Caroline Herschel conducted the frist "all-sky survey" and calalouged 5000 nebulae resolving some into their individual stars.
  • Milky Way

    Milky Way

    willaiam Parson used a 72-inch telescope and classified the nebulae into featureless ellipticals and whirlpool like spiral nebulae.
  • Milky Way

    Milky Way

    Kaypten used stellar parallax to estimate the true size of the galaxy.
  • Milky Way

    Milky Way

    observed that globular clusters are distributed asymmetrically in the sky
  • Milky Way

    Milky Way

    Edwin Hubble discovered that the Milky Way is one of many galaxies.
  • Milky Way

    Milky Way

    Actual size of galaxy and the suns location was fully determined.