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Of course it does,number one its our home galaxy.and probably home to other civilizations,in various stages of evolution.the milky way produced our sun which gave way to our beautiful earth forming with all of its amazing wonders;most importantly human beings.existence is so much of a precious gift that it doesn't need a reason.

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No. The Pleiades is an open cluster of a few thousand stars within the Milky Way.

The Pleiades is a group of stars about 2 degrees across, at a distance of 600 light years. That means it is about 20 light years from one side of the Pleiades to the other, but that it still much less than the size of the Galaxy. From the Pleiades, the Sun would appear as a 9th magnitude star, with Sirius nearby at magnitude 6.

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If you mean 'Are there any distant galaxies embedded within the Milky Way, the answer is no. Distant galaxies are completely separate from the Milky Way, and many can be seen through telescopes. A small number appear as stars to the naked eye. Everything we see, we see through the Milky Way, since it is the galaxy we live in. It is all around us; we cannot avoid looking through it. Some parts of the Milky Way, especially near the center, are so dense with clouds of dust and stars that we can't see much behind it. Apart from that, we can peer into deep space in pretty much any direction.

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Actually, the answer might be "Yes!" Recent researches indicate that galaxies often collide, and sometimes merge. Some somewhat controversial research indicates that our Milky Way may be a sort of "predator galaxy" which "eats" other smaller galaxies. At least one astronomer claims to have found traces of four other galaxies that have been absorbed into the Milky Way!

However, they wouldn't be especially "distant" because they would now be _part of_ the Milky Way.

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VY Canis Majoris, a red hypergiant in Canis Major, is the largest known star in the Milky Way Galaxy. It is about 3 x 109 kilometers (about 9 AU) in diameter, and located about 5 x 1016 kilometers (about 1.5 kpc) away from us.

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The milky way

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About 3.5 billion years. We won't be around for it.

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The Milky Way Galaxy is a spiral.

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The stellar disk of the Milky Way galaxy is approximately 100,000 light years in diameter and about 10,000 light years in thickness.

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No. The Milky Way is believed to be a barred spiral galaxy.

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It's an example of a Spiral Galaxy.

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Around the time of ancient Greek. From my understanding, There was believed to be a Greek goddess that breast fed her baby. The baby was ripped from her arms while breast feeding. The milk then was spat out of the babies mouth and from the breast, forming the MILKY way.

That story was told by the greek because in the sky, on a really dark night and if theres no lights, you can the galaxy around us. It looks like a stream of milk in the sky.

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Yes on wwe.com Exactly on WWE.com. If you don't already know, SmackDown! is taped. After 11:00 p.m.ET on Tuesday, check wwe.com on the SmackDown! portion and there you go!

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"The Milky Way Galaxy".

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A barred spiral galaxy (SBc classification). It is like a spiral galaxy but has a bar structure near the centre.

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This is estimated to be 100-400 billion stars. The reason this estimate is rather inaccurate is that it is hard to get a good estimate of the number of red dwarves - which make up the majority of the stars, but don't emit much light, and are therefore hard to find.

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It doesn't make a lot of sense to think this way. The Milky Way isn't a rigid disc, but consider for a moment a record or CD spinning... the outer edge has to travel a lot faster than the inner edge. Where, exactly, should you measure it to determine the speed in miles per hour?

If you mean "About how fast is the Sun moving around the Galactic Center", that's a little easier. Using a distance to the GC of 26,400 light years and a rotational period of about 250 million years, my quick back-of-the-envelope calculation comes up with around 450,000 miles per hour. However, we're not exactly sure of either the precise distance or the exact period, so that number could be off by a bit... I'd say 300,000 to 600,000 miles per hour is a reasonable bounding box for the value.

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Absolutely! in fact since Afghanistan has less infrastructure then some countries there is significantly less Light Pollution wich makes observing the Sky at night quite a treat!

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In Hindi it is called the "aakash ganga".

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The Milky Way is part of the Local Group, which is part of the Virgo Supercluster.

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The Milky Way (as well as other galaxies) rotates way too fast for the amount of known matter.

Answer2: Dark matter is suggested because most astronomers seem constrained to view the galaxies rotation as caused by gravity. An alternative explanation for the fast rotation is electromagnetism. Electricity is the major factor in the Universe and is likely the cause of the fast rotation. The energy for the fast rotation is the vector energy, Ev=mcV. This energy is the vector energy that is missing in physics theory. This is the same vector energy that explains "Dark Energy". This is the real Cosmological Constant, except it is not a constant.

The short answer for the fast rotation is the galaxies rotate like the homopolar motor used in most homes power meter. As electric current comes into the motor/galaxy the faster the motor turns. This was postulated by Hannes Alfven in 1986.

The math is the same as a mass spectrometer:

mv2/r = qVxB =qvBsin(x)

v=erBsin(x)/m = euIsin(x)/m = ezIsin(x)/mc thus mcv = ezIsin(x).

The Galaxies rotate fast as a result of the electrons entering the galaxy and crossing with the current created by the moving charged stars. The rotating charged stars create the B field in the Galaxy. This same effect causes the sun to rotate at the equator tham at higher lattitudes.

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