Milky Way Galaxy

That depends on how you define the "Milky Way". Technically, the "Milky Way" refers to a faint band of light that crosses the night sky. This band is how we see the star-dense disk of our galaxy from our vantage point inside that disk. Our galaxy was named for this band of light, and called the "Milky Way Galaxy". Note that the "Milky Way" and the "Milky Way Galaxy" refer to two different things. The answer also depends on what you mean by "stars in the sky". Do you mean the stars that can be seen from Earth? And if so, with the naked eye, or with a telecope? How powerful a telescope? Or do you mean every star that is "out there", i.e., every star in the universe, whether we can see it or not? I could sit here all day researching and entering answers to all the different ways this question could be interpreted. But I'm not going to waste that kind of time until you tell me what you are talking about. However, there is one way of interpreting this question that I already know the answer to, and I will give you that answer here. If the "Milky Way" means the galaxy, and if "stars in the sky" means stars visible, with the naked eye, from Earth's surface, then the answer is zero. There are no stars outside of our galaxy that are visible from here on Earth. There are a few "objects" outside our galaxy that are visible with the naked eye. But these objects are, for the most part, galaxies themselves, not individual stars. They are so far away that their immense masses appear to us as tiny pinpoints of light, indistinguishable from the true stars we can see. In fact, they are dimmer than most of the stars we can see. In all of the universe, I believe there is not a single individual star outside of our galaxy that is bright enough to be seen from Earth with the naked eye. But I may be wrong on that. There MAY be a couple of stars in one of the Magellanic Clouds that can be seen. But even if that is the case, the answer to the question is still, essentially, zero.

The Milky Way formed about 13.6 billion years ago from a huge cloud of gas and dust in space. As gravity pulled these materials together, they began to collapse and eventually formed the Milky Way galaxy that we see today. The Milky Way continues to evolve through the interactions of stars, gas, and dark matter within it.

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* France & Britain failed to resist the German reoccupation of the Rhineland * The great powers stayed out of the Spanish Civil War * France & Britain failed to resist the German invasion of Austria * France & Britain attempted to maintain European peace at the Munich Conference

* On 31 march 1939, France & Britain pledged to support Poland against a German attack * Nazi Germany & communist Russia signed a friendship/non-aggression pact in August 1939 * Between August & October of 1940 airmen from Britain, the commonwealth, France and Poland took on the Nazi airforce over the skies of Britian.

in milky way there are about 2,500 stars

it would take you approximately 100,000 years to travel across the milky way. happy traveling :-) !

Any direction away from the Earth's center Away from from Earth's center. In other words all directions.

This answer is wrong. The question is, in absolute terms, not relatively speaking, Which way is up?

If up is any direction away from the Earth's center, that would mean that , as admitted in the incorrect answer, up would be 360 times 360 different directions.

The correct answer is man has no idea what direction is up. Up cannot be 129,600 different directions which include directions which would be opposite to other directions.

The answer is man does not know which way is up.

Yes.

It is not like the Earth owns the Milky Way but some of us Earthlings call the galaxy in which the solar system resides (with the Earth) for The Milky Way [Swedes call it "Vintergatan" (the Winter Road)]

Milky Way: About 100,000 light-years in diameter

Universe: Unknown, but the observable Universe has a diameter of about 92 billion light-years.

Solar System: There are different definitions for the limits of the Solar System; if you include the Oort Cloud, you would have a diameter of about 4 light-years.

That's a radius of about 2 light years, taking you about half way to the nearest star.

With many other commonly used definitions, the "Solar System" is much smaller.

Every star you see is in the Milky Way, so you can say it is visible throughout the year. A particular line that looks like a trail or a sort of milky way goes through the night sky and can also be seen all year round in different constellations.

Maybe someone who is trying to prove that and doesn't know the right answer

The 'stars' are any celestial object that reflects the light from the sun... This can be something as small as a man-made satellite - or as large as a whole galaxy !

Galileo Galilei

they beilive the milky way was formed in an indonesian and it is very complexist in this tixtures and especially cos they used a camera and stuff in there alwys in evrything

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yes, the milky way it is a barred spiral galaxy

Depends what you mean by "significance."

We know there is SOMETHING out there in our Universe that exerts a gravitational force but does not otherwise interact with ordinary, baryonic matter. However, we do not yet know what this stuff IS. So, in the same way that highly penetrating rays are still called 'X' rays -- even though they are no longer so mysterious that we need to give them the moniker 'X' -- we presently call this stuff "dark matter."

When we finally are able to figure out what dark matter is, it will most likely radically change our understanding of the nature of our Universe -- in the same way that x-rays did.

It may turn out that dark matter will have no effect on our daily life. Or, once we understand what this stuff is, it may turn out to be as important to us as x-rays are today. In that sense dark matter may or may not have much "significance" to most people.

There are lots of spiral galaxies, so you shouldn't speak about the spiral galaxy as if there were only one, and while there are lots of moons inside galaxies, you may be thinking of galaxies that have other galaxies which orbit them; our own galaxy, the Milky Way, has the Greater and Lesser Magellanic Clouds as satellite galaxies, which perhaps is what you had in mind. A satellite galaxy is not a moon, however.

Over 100 billion just in ourgalaxy. So more than 100 billion stars in a galaxy!

The Sun's light actually reflects from the moon and reaches the Earth. That's why it's really bright, compared to a normal night, on full moons.

We are in the Milky Way Galaxy, therefore we see at clear nights interstellar dust illuminated by starlight. The dust is in a form of a spiral arm which we see only part of as a narrow band.

They are in space. (: you're welcome.

It is a radiotelescope which works on radio waves instead of light waves.

The local group is a collection of galaxies. It is not a galaxy on it's own.

a few billion

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