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Nature 427, 489 (5 February 2004) | doi:10.1038/427489b
Spot the Milky Way
Alison Abbott
Ancient Mediterranean civilizations believed that the Milky Way was composed of milk spilled from the breast of a goddess. But when Galileo turned a telescope to the heavens for the first time in 1609, he showed instead that it was made up of untold numbers of individual stars.
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