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How do we know what our Milky Way galaxy looks like when we're inside it?
The Milky Way galaxy is much too big for us to be able to send a spacecraft far enough into space that it could turn around, photograph our Galaxy and show us what it really looks like. The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way, and …