Milky Way Galaxy

The Milky Way galaxy contains a variety of stars, including main sequence stars (like our Sun), giants, supergiants, white dwarfs, and neutron stars. The most common stars are red dwarfs, making up about 70-80% of all stars in the Milky Way. There are also many other types of stars, such as yellow dwarfs (like our Sun), blue giants, and red giants.

Yes. Venus is one of the planets in our solar system, and our Sun (and the solar system) are part of the Milky Way galaxy.

biggest to smallest : universe, galaxy, star/solar system, planet, moon.

The Universe is everything that exists and a galaxy is a cluster of billions of stars and then planets rotate around stars and moons rotate around planets.

I'm unable to draw images. However, I can describe the Milky Way galaxy to you! From the top, it appears as a spiral disk with spiral arms spiraling out from the center. From the side, it looks like a flat disk with a bulging central region, surrounded by a halo of stars and dark matter.

No. The milky way galaxy consists of our solar system and many other solar systems. Since Jupiter is part of our solar system, you can safely conclude that it is indeed a part of this Galaxy.

The bulge in the Milky Way Galaxy is a central, dense region consisting of mostly older stars. It has a bulging, spherical shape and is thought to be around 10,000 light-years in diameter. The bulge is believed to contain a supermassive black hole at its center.

No. I can state unequivocally and without fear of contradiction that is has no function at all. It's just there.

On the other hand, it does happen to be the environment in which our sun came to become a star, and the sun, in turn,
furnished the environment in which the earth formed and eventually came to host life.

That's not to say that the 'function' of the Milky Way Galaxy is to furnish a large-scale platform in which the
conditions necessary to the existence of human life on earth can exist . . . that would be too spooky.

For that matter, I'm not even sure what the function of human life on earth is, or if it even has one. But if it has, and
you can explain what it is, then maybe that's not too different from whatever the function of the Milky Way Galaxy is.

It's also called the Cygnus Arm or Cygnus-Norma Arm, which might give you a clue to the source of the name if you're more familiar with northern constellations than southern ones. Norma is one of the constellations the Milky Way passes through. It's otherwise fairly unremarkable, consisting mainly of two moderately bright stars, so it's not surprising that many people have never heard of it.

Eris is not a planet in the Milky Way galaxy; it is a dwarf planet located in the outer solar system. It is the most massive dwarf planet known to exist and is part of the Kuiper Belt, a region beyond Neptune that is home to many icy bodies.

As all the planets that are in the Milky Way galaxy are not yet known, that question is impossible to answer.

The Milky Way Galaxy is a member of the Local Group, a collection of galaxies that includes around 54 members. Within the Local Group, the Milky Way is one of the largest galaxies and is gravitationally bound to other galaxies such as Andromeda.

The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is not colliding with the Milky Way Galaxy. It is located about 25,000 light-years away from the Milky Way and is in a stable orbit around our galaxy. However, interactions between the two galaxies may be affecting each other gravitationally.

It would take approximately 25,000 light-years to travel from Earth to the center of the Milky Way galaxy at the speed of light. This journey is not currently possible with our current technology as it would require significantly advanced propulsion systems and energy sources.

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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The nearest known is the very small Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy at 25,000 light years, a 'satellite' galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. This was only discovered in 2003, so there may be an unknown small galaxy closer.

If you want the closest galaxy that is not a Milky Way satellite, that seems to be NGC 185 at just over 2 million light years, though this is in turn a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31).

Finally, M31 is the nearest galaxy that is anything like the Milky Way, a large spiral with its own satellites. It's about 2.5 million light years away.

Radio waves pass most easily through the disk of the Milky Way due to their long wavelengths, which are able to penetrate the thick dust and gas clouds that block other forms of radiation like ultraviolet and X-rays. This is why radio telescopes are commonly used to study the Milky Way's structure and composition.

To understand the 'how' of the presence of a supermassive black hole believed to be in the center of the Milky Way, one would need to know of the mechanism of its origin, which is tied to the origin of the galaxy itself. If sufficient matter is present in a given location, gravitational forces cause the matter to 'clump' and if sufficiently strong, it will continue to accrete and gain in mass; above a certain mass, given favorable conditions, a black hole will form. This is believed to have happened during the formation of our galaxy. In the case of the black hole at the galactic center, calculations indicate it has managed to acquire over four million solar masses.

Well if the sun were the size of a grapefruit we would not have anything in this solar system to compare it to, so lets make the sun the size of a grain of sand (2mm), the milky way would then be the size of our Sun, which is just over 109 the size of earth... however we are basing this off width, being that the Milky Way is disk shaped.

If there is no dark matter in the Milky Way Galaxy, one alternative explanation for the observations could be modifications to the theory of gravity, such as MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics). MOND proposes that gravity behaves differently on large scales than predicted by Newtonian physics, potentially explaining the observed phenomena without the need for dark matter.

No, they just named the galaxy the milky way because it's like....... well, a milky way.

It is the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy. The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is the second closest to the milky way.

Because we only know the names of the planets in our Solar System, the right question could have been "What are the planets in our solar system?" which is of course very elementary. Some people can sometimes get confused between solar system and galaxy

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.