He saw that the Milky Way, that cloudy streak across the sky, is made of stars.

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According to scientists, the largest supply of alcohol resides in a vast alcohol cloud in the Milky Way that measures 288 billion miles across.

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Every star in the Milky Way glimmers with perfect clarity in the cloudless sky: diamonds flung across black velvet.

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