How Big is Our Galaxy - And How Do We Know?

Cleo Abram May 25, 2025
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Cleo Abram

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Video journalist making optimistic tech explainers. Huge If True. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cleoabram TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cleoabram Twitter: https://twitter.com/cleoabram If you'd like to sponsor a Huge If True episode, reach out at the email below. If you're looking for my bio, here it is: Cleo Abram is a video journalist who produces Huge If True, an optimistic show about science and technology. Huge If True is an antidote to the doom and gloom, helping a wide audience see better futures they can help build. In each episode, Cleo dives deep into one innovation that could shape the future. She has explored humanoid robots at Boston Dynamics, supersonic planes at NASA, quantum computers at IBM, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and more. Previously, Cleo was a video producer at Vox and directed for Explained on Netflix. She was the host of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, as well as co-host of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.

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The Milky Way is ENORMOUS… but how do we know how big it is? How do you figure out how far a star is? The Milky Way has over 100 billion stars in it and we’re still learning new things about it all the time. For more optimistic science and tech stories, subscribe! #shorts #milkyway #science #stem #astrophysics