Space Travel
03, Jul, 2009

The Milky Way

In the 1920s, astronomers realized that our Solar System was part of an island of stars, one of many such islands in the Universe. Today, we know more about our island in space, the Milky Way, than ever before.
1 Extrasolar Planets 668
2 Neutron Stars and Pulsars 637
3 Black Holes 749
4 Life in our Galaxy 769
5 What is the Milky Way? 723