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Milky Way floats above frozen lake, Front Range, Colorado, USA

The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. The descriptive milky is derived from the appearance from Earth of the galaxy - a band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye. From Earth, the Milky Way appears as a band because its disk-shaped structure is viewed from within. The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy with a diameter between 100, 000 and 180, 000 light-years (ly). It is estimated to contain 100-400 billion stars

© William D. Jaynes / Danita Delimont

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© Andy Nixon

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Distant view of a small traditional flat house under blue sky and surrounded by golden wavy grass , Coffee Bay, Eastern Cape province, South Africa

The rural area of the Eastern Cape where Nelson Mandela was born, formerly known as the Transkei during apartheid years, is still largely populated by the traditional isiXhosa tribe. The isiXhosa tribe is one of the poorest cultures in the world today and most people live without electricity or running water in their homes