The Milky Way
- Galaxies are made up of billions of stars
- The Universe is made up of many different galaxies
- The Sun is one of the billions of stars in a galaxy called the Milky Way
- Other stars in the Milky Way galaxy are much further away from Earth than the Sun is
- Some of these stars also have planets which orbit them
Our Place in Space
Our solar system is just one out of potentially billions in our galactic neighbourhood, the Milky Way. There are estimated to be more than 100 billion galaxies in the entire universe