10 interestering facts about the milky way?

Answer 1

The Milky Way, sometimes called simply the Galaxy, 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.

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Answer 2

1. Most people refer to this as either the Milky Way or Galaxy.
2. The Milky Way is where Earth and our Solar System are located.
3. Aristotle, in his Meteorologica, suggested that the Milky Way may be made up of distant stars.
4. Galileo provided proof that the Milky Way did consist of stars when he used his telescope.
5. The Milky Way contains approximately a minimum of 100 billion stars and a maximum of 400 billion.
6. Similar to other galaxies, the Milky Way contains a bulge, disk, and halo.
7. The bulge in the center of the Milky Way is said to contain old stars.
8. The halo of the Milky Way is believed is said to contain dark matter and globular clusters.
9. The disk is said to be made of young stars, dust, and gas.
10. The Milky Way is known as a binary system.

Answer 3

The Milky Way, or simply the Galaxy, is the galaxy in which the Solar System is located. The stellar disk of the Milky Way Galaxy is approximately 100,000 light years (9.5×1017 km) in diameter, and is considered to be, on average, about 1,000 light years(9.5×1015 km) thick.

Answer 4

1. The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy composed of around 100 billion stars.
2. Our solar system is located in one of the Milky Way’s spiral arms called the Orion Arm.
3. The Milky Way is approximately 100,000 light-years in diameter.
4. It is estimated that the Milky Way is about 13.6 billion years old.
5. The center of the Milky Way contains a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*.
6. The Milky Way is moving through space at a speed of about 600 km/s.
7. It is thought that the Milky Way will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy in about 4 billion years.
8. The Milky Way is home to a variety of astronomical objects including nebulae, star clusters, and black holes.
9. It is estimated that there are more than 100 billion planets in the Milky Way galaxy.
10. The light we see from the Milky Way is a combination of light emitted by its stars and light that is reflected by interstellar dust particles.

Answer 5

The milky way galaxy is in the shape of a barred spiral.

Answer 6

it's the second largest galaxy in the local group and our solar system is in the Orion arm of the milky way.

Answer 7

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy and has a diameter of about 100,000 light years (That's 5.87849981 × 1017 miles)

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Answer 8

what are some changes taking place in the milky way galaxy