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A newborn child opens its eyes. The first faces it sees are those of its parents, followed by excited grandparents, aunts, uncles, perhaps brothers and sisters. Little by little, the world becomes a bigger place. It takes time, but over the years,...
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A newborn child opens its eyes. The first faces it sees are those of its parents, followed by excited grandparents, aunts, uncles, perhaps brothers and sisters. Little by little, the world becomes a bigger place. It takes time, but over the years, each of us comes to understand our part in a larger story of relations and connections, as well as a shared history. This is our family. To use a metaphor from human experience, our Sun has a family too: the Milky Way Galaxy. We've certainly been aware of the Milky Way for a long time. Even the name we gave to the mysterious white stain across the sky conjures up the image of a parent: the milk from some vast and unseen mother. Like a Goddess, the Milky Way is truly something to be awed by. We live in a disk of stars so vast, that if our Sun was the size of the dot of an "i" on this page, the Milky Way would stretch from Los Angeles to New York City. Hundreds of billions of stars, our Sun among them, orbit around the dense center of our... See less 
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