Defining Characterization Characterization is the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character. Characterization is revealed through direct characterization and indirect characterization. Direct Characterization tells the audience what the personality of the character is.
Our Sun is just one of an estimated two-to-four hundred billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy, and looking up towards the night sky, one canât help but wonder how many of those stars have planets of their own, and what those worlds are like. Image credit: Free Roaming Photography, by Mike Cavaroc.
Image of the Milky Way taken at 1996. Texas Star Party. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains maybe 400 billion stars (plus or minus 200 billion) that lie mostly in a flattened spiral disk of some 70-100,000 light-years (ly) across, with a central bulge of about 10,000 ly in diameter.