13. How did the Milky Way get its name? (A K2S Question)

From The Space Library

If you go to a really dark location in the country, late on a summer night, you will see how the Milky Way got its name. There are so many stars, so close together and so far away, that they look like a creamy band across the sky.

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Answer provided by Jim Zebrowski

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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