• Question: How long ago was the Milky Way made and wat caused its creation

    Asked by anon-226055 to joannabarstow on 21 Nov 2019.
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      Joanna Barstow answered on 21 Nov 2019:

      The Milky Way is thought to be more than 13 billion years old, nearly as old as the Universe. We think galaxies formed the way they did because matter after the Big Bang was a bit lumpy, so where there was more stuff stars were more likely to form.

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