The Milky Way galaxy is shaped like?

Answer 1

The Milky Way was long thought to be a "spiral" galaxy much like the Andromeda Galaxy . But recent observations indicate that the Milky Way is probably a "barred spiral" galaxy. Viewing the Milky Way from within as we do, it is somewhat difficult to get a clear picture.

Answer 2

ANSWER:Its a spiral galaxy with a circular circumference. From a side angle, its eliptical in shape, thicker in the center than at the outlying edge. It is shaped like a circleTo make it more specific, it is like a streched out version of a pin wheel. AnswerIn a way, yes. The galaxy is mostly flat, and shaped like a circle. However, it is more complex than that. Although we are in the middle of our galaxy and can't get a good picture of it, there are other, similar galaxies that can be used to represent it.

The Milky Way has four spiral arms radiating out from a central cluster of stars or "nucleus". Our solar system is located on one of the spiral arms, quite far from the center, and it has a bulge in the middle.

Answer 3

The Milky Way is our galaxy. It is close to the Local Super Cluster of galaxies, Virgo 1. The Super Cluster is a giant area of many galaxies, that head toward each other, but do not necessarily collide with each other. Its what makes the universe!

Answer 4

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, forms a flat spiral shape with 6 arms (4 major and 2 minor) radiating from a dense central core.

The entire galaxy is roughly 100,000 light years across, averages 10,000 light years deep (30,000 at the core) and contains between 200 & 400 billion stars.

There is also a spherical region surrounding the Milky Way, called the "stellar halo", with a diameter of 100,000 bullion light years containing dense clusters of thousands of stars. Extending even further out is the "corona" or "dark halo", extends more than 600,000 bullion light years. This corona contains 2 small galaxies called the "Megallenic Clouds" and four more small galaxies.

There is a good 'map' located here: http://www.Google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/images/milky_way_large.jpg&imgrefurl=http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast123/lectures/lec10.html&h=648&w=648&sz=33&tbnid=A6MeRjD3duRa9M:&tbnh=137&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dthe%2Bmilky%2Bway%2Bgalaxy&hl=en&usg=__aLWLaGXbPNI67YFcjnluVVr_ESs=&ei=ofTMSojnCJWENuXIoDo&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=3&ct=image
The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy.

Answer 5

The Milky Way Galaxy is classed as a spiral galaxy as it's appearance is of a spiral with looser outer stars becoming denser the closer you get to the centre.

As a picture is worth a thousand of my words, the the related link for a generated picture of our galaxy.

Note: This is a computer generation of what we believe the galaxy looks like and not a real one (as we have not ventured past our own solar system, let alone the galaxy).

Answer 6

The Milky Way is the home galaxy of the solar system.Its a barred spiral shape galaxy. It contains 100-400 billion stars and at least 50 billion planets.The stellar disk of the Milky Way galaxy is approximately 100,000 light years.The Milky Way is part of the local group of galaxies and is one of around 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe.

Answer 7

The Milky Way galaxy is shaped like a spiral, with a central bulge surrounded by arms that extend outward in a spiral pattern.

Answer 8

There are billions upon billions of galaxies, and only a few basic shapes. Our Milky Way is a "barred spiral" galaxy, perhaps somewhat similar to NGC 1300, pictured at the link below.

Answer 9

The milky way is our galaxy... The milky way is in a spiral form shape... it consists of billions and billions of stars... The milky way also has many dwarf stars and planets...

Answer 10

The center of the galaxy is the brightest part of it due to the vast array of stars in a more confined area.