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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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What is the name of your large galaxy nearest to your milky way?
Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest spiral galaxy to our Milky Way Galaxy. It is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also contains the Milky Way, the Triangulum Galaxy, and about 30 other smaller galaxies.
How far from the center of the galaxy is the sun positioned?
What's a sun? Joking, No the sun isn't in the middle its inside Saturn.
According to wiki:
It is extremely difficult to define the age at which the Milky Way formed, but the age of the oldest star in the Galaxy yet discovered is estimated to be about 13.2 billion years, nearly as old as the Universe itself. This estimate is based on research by a team of astronomers in 2004 using the UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph of the Very Large Telescope to measure, for the first time, the beryllium content of two stars in globular cluster NGC 6397. From this research, the elapsed time between the rise of the first generation of stars in the entire Galaxy and the first generation of stars in the cluster was deduced to be 200 million to 300 million years. By including the estimated age of the stars in the globular cluster (13.4 ± 0.8 billion years), they estimated the age of the oldest stars in the Milky Way at 13.6 ± 0.8 billion years. Based upon this emerging science, the Galactic thin disk is estimated to have been formed between 6.5 and 10.1 billion years ago.
What does the Milky Way galaxy consist of?
There are between 200 and 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, mostly spread out in a spiral disk surrounding a dense central region. Vast clouds of gas and dust called nebulae occupy much of the space between these stars, called the interstellar medium. There may also be debris and planetary objects orbiting the stars or drifting through space. At the center, there is a bar-shaped gathering of stars and gas around 27,000 light years long called the galactic core. Around this is a disk-shaped grouping of stars and matter called the stellar disk, which stretches to about 100,000 light years across and averaging 1,000 light years thick. Our Solar System is located on one of the spiral arms making up this disk. Finally, marking the outer boundary of the galaxy is the galactic halo, which is spherical and contains older stars than the disk. It surrounds the inner galactic components at up to 200,000 light years in diameter. The entire galaxy with all its constituents is thought to orbit around a supermassive black hole found in the very center of the galactic core.
The mass of the entire Milky Way is thought to be about 600 billion times the mass of the sun, and it formed a bit over 13 billion years ago. Our solar system orbits around its center about once every 250 million years. Hypothetical dark matter is suspected of occupying most of the detectable mass in the Milky Way Galaxy. While the observable matter (stars, nebulas, etc.) is as much as 400 billion solar-masses, the total theoretical mass of the dark matter is estimated between 600 billion and 3 trillion solar-masses. The Milky Way is the galaxy we are in, along with some billions of other galaxies. There are a few hundred billion stars in our galaxy, and the Sun is a star with average brightness. There are also star clusters, and nebulas which are big clouds of luminous gas.
How far away is the Comet Galaxy from the Milky Way?
Mars (and every other planet in our solar system) is nowhere near the center of the galaxy. About 75,000 light years...
Does the Milky Way contain the local group?
No. The local group contains the Milky Way and a few other galaxies.
Where is are sun located in the milky way galaxy?
The Milky Way Galaxy is located within the Local Group of the Virgo Supercluster.
See related link for a pictorial of our location (Red arrow)
What is milky way best described as?
It is the SOLAR SYSTEM where the Earth is part of it( A Solar System Consists of Planets, Moon, Stars like SUN, Asteroids, Meteors, Comets and sometimes Black Hole).Above the surface of the Milky Way, Millions and Billions of Cluster of Stars are Scattered around it. A Cluster of Stars are made up of Looking-Young Stars but, They are actually old since the Milky Way was formed around 12 Billion Yrs. old.
How many constellation are near the milky way galaxy?
All of them. Any star you can see with the naked eye is within the Milky Way Galaxy.
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
...sorry that's all i could find
who ever wrote this is stupid and don't got no brain get a life!!!!!!!!!
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.)
