• Question: what is the difference between a planet and a galaxy

    Asked by nami123 to Ajay, Kate, Kuntal, Pip, Reka on 10 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by Galaxy 57.
    • Photo: Reka Nagy

      Reka Nagy answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      You can think of it as a planet being a smaller subunit of a galaxy.
      A galaxy consists of billions of stars, and stars may have planets orbiting them.
      So we are on planet Earth, which orbits our Sun, which, together with many other stars, forms the Milky Way galaxy.

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