The Milky Way is the galaxy which is the home of our Solar System(mercury, Venus, Earth,Mars, and so on) together with at least 200 billion other stars(suns) (more recent estimates have given numbers around 400 billion) and their planets and thousands of clusters and nebulae, including at least almost all objects of Messier's catalog which are not galaxies on their own (one might consider two globular clusters as possible exceptions, as probably they are just being, or have recently been, incorporated or imported into our Galaxy from dwarf galaxies which are currently in close encounters with the Milky Way: M54 from SagDEG, and possibly M79 from the Canis Major Dwarf).
Read more at http://www.seds.org/messier/more/mw.html
with so meny planets and suns, how can we be alone?
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