What is the "Milky Way"?

What is the "Milky Way"?

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I think you can get a pretty good look at the Milky Way if you get away from the city, lay down in the field, and look to the south and to the west. You'll see this area of the sky that's just full of stars. Now, we are part of the Milky Way, but we're on an edge of the Milky Way. So when we see the Milky Way, we're looking through thousands and thousands of stars that are sitting above us. We're on the edge of it looking through. The Milky Way is a galaxy, and a galaxy is just basically thousands of stars all together in one group.