In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You’ll wrap your head around today’s topic: galactic halo! When you look at a random galaxy, your eye is drawn to the disk. That’s not surprising, considering that the disk contains the vast majority of stars, and thereby gives off the most …



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