Continue doing this until you have all the beads you need for your pattern. This will be the ladder stich creating the foundation row for the brick stitch. Pick up one bead then pass the needle under the thread between the first two beads on the foundation row. Pull the thread and bring the bead up into place.
Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is a large disk-shaped barred-spiral galaxy about 30 kiloparsecs in diameter and a kiloparsec thick. It contains about two hundred billion (2Ã1011) stars and has a total mass of about six hundred billion (6Ã1011) times the mass of the Sun.
On that scale with our Solar System in your hand, the Milky Way Galaxy, with its 200 â 400 billion stars, would span North America (see the illustration on the right). Galaxies come in many sizes. The Milky Way is big, but some galaxies, like our Andromeda Galaxy neighbor, are much larger. The universe is all of the galaxies â billions of them! NASAâs telescopes allow us to study galaxies beyond our own in exquisite detail, and to explore the most distant reaches of the observable universe.