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Milky Way Galaxy
The Milky Way, named for how its pale light is seen from Earth, is the galaxy that our solar system belongs to.
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Is the Milky Way Galaxy the smallest galaxy in the universe?
All of them are.
Generally elliptical galaxies are the oldest.
Where is planet earth in the milky way galaxy?
our galaxy contains between 200- to 400-billion stars arranged in a giant disc shape. The diameter is 100,000 light years with an average thickness of 10,000 light years. The Earth is located about 28,000 light years from the center of the Milky Way.
What is a simalarity between spiral and eliptical galaxies?
Both structures contain huge numbers of stars.
What are facts about the milky way galaxy?
It's a barred spiral.
There's a supermassive black hole at its heart.
It's a cannibal.
You can only see 0.000003% percent of it
90% of it is invisible.
It has the same proportion as a stack of four DVDs
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What is the nearest spiral galaxy to your Milky Way?
The closest Galaxy to us (apart form the Milkyway in which we sit), is the The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy (an irregular galaxy) located about 25,000 light-years away from our Solar System. Then there are the two satellite galaxies to ours, the large and small Magellanic Clouds. The LMC lies about 160,000 light years away and while the SMC is around 200,000 light years away.
After these comes the Andromeda Galaxy, which is a separate spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth.
Note, there may be some closer remnants of galaxies that the Milky Way has consumed that could be argued to be closer.
What are the different group of stars?
While some people may call them star clouds, other use the term star clusters. They refer to the same group of stars.
How does the Milky Way looks like?
They differ. Galaxies basically fall into 4 categories, those being Spiral, Barred Spiral, Elliptical and Erratic.
How did the Milky Way galaxy get named?
The Ancient Greeks - to them it looked like a stream of milk splashed across the sky.
What galaxy will eventually collide with milkey way galaxy?
The Milky Way galaxy will collide with Andromeda, but it will take about a 2 billion years until they collide and finish. Earth will not get blown up, but by then, the sun will probably be out of hydrogen and expand. Then earth will be engulfed and all life will die.
Which way do Spiral Galaxies rotate?
Spiral galaxies mainly rotate either clockwise or anticlockwise depending on which way the "winding" started during the formation of the galaxy.
Some galaxies, however like NGC 4622 [See related link], can have opposing directions, however this is rare and probably the cause of a galactic interaction.
How long would it take to reach the ends of the milky way galaxy?
The Milky Way galaxy is about 100,000 light-years in diameter. Traveling at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to reach the edge. However, with current spacecraft technology, which travels at approximately 17,500 miles per hour, it would take over 20 billion years to traverse the galaxy. Thus, reaching the ends of the Milky Way is far beyond human capabilities with existing technology.
No, the Milky Way is a galaxy and it is the galaxy that we live in.
Is the Milky Way galaxy hot or cold?
The Milky Way is not a uniform object; different parts have different temperatures. In outer space, the temperature can go down to a few Kelvin (that is, almost absolute zero); in the center of some stars, the temperature can be a hundred million Kelvin, or even more. (Note: At temperatures of millions of degrees, Kelvin is the same as as Celsius, for practical purposes.)
The Milky Way also contains two significant minor arms, as well as two. This supermassive black hole may have started off smaller.
