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Via lactea
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Via lactea,[1][2] vel orbis lacteus,[3] est galaxias, in quo habitamus nos. Quae enim, diametro circiter 100 000 annorum luce mensorum et crassitudine fere 12 000 a.l.m., stellarum 219 000 000 000 vel plura continet, inter quos Sol et huius systema planetarium Tellus includens.
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Vide etiam paginam fere homonymam: Galaxias.