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Scattered throughout the universe, these island cities of stars contain hundreds of billions of suns. Features common to most galaxies are globular clusters, nebulae and open clusters. Amazingly, it was only within the last 100 years that scientists proved our own galaxy, The Milky Way, was not the only one.

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M63

NGC 6946

M51

M101

NGC 4565

NGC 3628

NGC 5218

M81

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M31

M83

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