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What does the Milky Way look like?
Our Galaxy, the Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy. It means it is spiral in form and has a central bar. Pictures explain the concept better.See related links for a pictorial representation of our galaxy.
What the Milky Way look's like?
Our Galaxy, the Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy. It means it is spiral in form and has a central bar. Pictures explain the concept better.See related links for a pictorial representation of our galaxy.
What is the milky way shaped like?
The milky way galaxy is a barred spiral shaped galaxy.
What is the meaning of the spiral galaxy?
It means the galaxy has the shape of a spiral. To see what this looks like, search Google Images (image.google.com) for examples.
Why does the Milky Way galaxy NOT look like a spiral when viewed from Earth?
It does not look like a spiral because we are inside the disk that forms the spiral arms. To see the spiral, you have to be outside the galaxy, viewing the disk from above or below.
What is a galaxy shaped like a wheel and has arms look like?
A spiral, I think.
What does a barred galaxy look like?
A spiral galaxy CAN be called a spiral barred galaxy if it has a central bar. About 50% of all spiral galaxies have a central bar. It's nothing more than a central core than resembles a bar - or peanut in earlier texts that differentiate it from "normal" spiral galaxies that have a circular or oval centre. See related links for pictorial of the difference.
What does the surface of the Milky Way look like?
The milky way has no definite surface, however from a distance it would look like a barred 2 armed spiral with some of the spiral arms bifurcating.
How does the Milky Way looks like?
They differ. Galaxies basically fall into 4 categories, those being Spiral, Barred Spiral, Elliptical and Erratic.
What does a spiral galaxy look like when seen edge-on?
It looks like a flat disc. See related link for a picture of the Sombrero galaxy edge on.
What are four general shapes of galaxies?
Galaxies have different shapes because of what happens throughout their lives. Any galaxy, at one point or another, will encounter another or many galaxies. When encounters occur, gravity takes over. The larger of the two galaxies will consume the smaller one, this is called galactic cannibalism. The act of absorbing another galaxy will change the size of the galaxy it's shape and even the speed of its rotation. Our own galaxy, The Milky Way, is as large it is (100000-150000 Light years across.) because of galactic cannibalism. The Milky Way is as we speak consuming two other small galaxy. And in about 2 billion years, our nearest nieghbor, the Andromeda Galaxy, will collide with our galaxy. Both the Milky Way and Adromeda galaxy are spiral galaxies, but after they collide the resulting new galaxy will an elliptical galaxy, which looks like a bright white sphere.
What does Milky mean?
The section of the night sky where you view the milky way galaxy edge on. There are so many stars in this part of the night sky that it look like a path of spilled milk - therefore it is called the milky way., The Milky Way is the galaxy in which the solar system is located. It is a barred spiral galaxy that is part of the local group of galaxies. It is one of billions of galaxies in the observable universe.
