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How Galaxies Work        History of Galaxies Let's look at the history of galaxies in astronomy. The Greeks coined the term "galaxies kuklos" for "milky circle" when describing the Milky Way. The Milky Way was a faint band of  light , but they had no idea what it was composed of. When Galileo looked at the Milky Way with the first  telescope , he determined that it was made up of numerous  stars . We've known for centuries that our solar system was located within the Milky Way because the Milky Way surrounds us. We can see it throughout the year in all parts of the sky, but it's brighter during the summer, when we're looking at the center of the galaxy. However, to astronomers in the 18th century and earlier, it wasn't clear that the Milky Way was a galaxy and not just a distribution of stars. In the late 18th century, astronomers William and Caroline Herschel mapped the distances to s