A Dull Neighborhood

Living in a dull neighborhood
Stretching across the dark night sky, not easily visible when the Moon is in the sky, is a faint irregular
In summer, in a clear place with dark night skies, an irregular glowing band arcs high overhead. The ancients likened
To begin with, Earth is rotating on its axis at the familiar rate of one revolution per day. For those
Most estimates place the number of stars in our galaxy at between 100 billion and 500 billion.
The Milky Way’s disk spans at least 100,000 light-years and probably contains several hundred billion stars, which makes our home
Quite a few. Most estimates place the number of galaxies at around 100 billion. Most of those galaxies are little