Astro Snack: Galaxies

Produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach in collaboration with NASA’s Universe of Learning partners: California Institute of Technology/IPAC, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

 

Written by Claire Blome

Design by Joseph Olmsted

Editorial and design input from Dr. Christopher T. Britt, Dr. Quyen Hart, Timothy Rhue II
Voiceover by Yesenia Perez, Dr. Quyen Hart

Music (“Snack Time”) by Joseph Depasquale

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Astro Snack. Galaxies.

 

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Text, Astro Snack Galaxies.

 

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Like pizzas, galaxies are sprinkled with ingredients.

 

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A cartoon pizza spins to become a galaxy.

 

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Large galaxies have billions and billions of stars that are bound by gravity.

 

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A galaxy full of stars.

 

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Let's take a closer look. Yep, tons of stars! Most stars have planets making their own solar systems. A galaxy also includes plenty of other ingredients, stars and planets, dust, gas. Galaxies are massive. Plus no two galaxies are exactly the same!

 

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Another, different galaxy appears.

 

An astronaut character floats by.