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Given that the Milky Way was once thought to be murky but is now considered to be made up of point sources.
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There were no telescopes until the 17th century and the people were not able to distinguish individual stars in the night sky. The stars in the Milky Way region were so many in numbers and were very close together. So as an observer from earth saw the star clusters as a milky stipe across the night sky.
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