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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.
954 Questions
What are the odds of another earth type planet in your galaxy?
1.5 Multiplied by 10 to the 17th power.
What do you mean when you talk about the Milky Way in your sky?
The Milky Way is the Galaxy our solar system is located in along with many other solar systems. In turn many Galaxies go to make up the Universe. It will take time to get your head around this concept If your curiosity has only just awoken.
When will the milky way explode?
The Milky Way, as a whole, will not explode. Many stars may well go supernova as they reach end of life, but ours will not. As far as the ultimate fate of the universe, that is unknown, and dependent on the second derivative of c in one of Einstein's space-time equations.
Where in our galaxy does most star formation take place?
In molecular clouds, such as the Orion Nebula.
It really doesn't make sense to talk about a constellation being inside or outside the Milky Way. A constellation is, roughly speaking, a general direction in space. This general direction goes all the way to infinity... or however far our Universe goes. There are objects in this general direction both within and outside our Milky Way.
Is there different milky ways?
No, The name of our galaxy is the milky way Galaxy. The are many other galxies like the milky way, because it is a sprial galaxy, and there are billions upon billions of of spriral galxaxies.
No, it is part of a cluster of 30 galaxies known as the local group. The two most massive members of the group are the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy.
Why is the Milky Way so important?
The Milky Way galaxy is our home galaxy, that's where the solar system is located, and where we are. And we are important (at least to ourselves).
What is the distance across the milky way galaxy?
Our Milky Way galaxy is 100,000 light years across.
Nothing. We literally know nothing all we know how is that it is there somewhere.
Is there lots of gas and dust between the stars in the milkyway galaxy?
The stars we see in the sky are in the Milky Way.
How do astronomer study the center of milky way galaxy?
They use powerful devices such as the Hubble Space Telescope, and infrared and ultraviolet waves.
Astronomers also use the direction of the path of light, gamma rays, and beta particles to study the center of our spiral-shaped Milky Way Galaxy.
How many dwarf planets is there in the Milky Way?
As of yet, we can hardly count the total number of stars currently visible to our naked eyes without aid of machine and even still they can't get it right yet. That is not something anyone currently has the answer to.
400 billion seconds. (almost thirteen thousand years) By the way there are probably no more than 200 billion stars in our galaxy...
william herschel
If there are no real pictures of the milky way galaxy from above how do we know what it looks like?
there is no real pic of god so why would people think hes real
The Milky Way is in space. Through together, there is also constellations and (mostly) stars around it.
As some of these planets MIGHT be near the Milky Way:
Sun(?)
Moon(?)
Earth(?)
Mercury(?), Mars(?), Jupiter(?), Venus(?), Saturn(?), Uranus(?) and Neptune (?). Find out if these planets ARE actually near the Milky Way on Google.
No answer for the Milky Way "dangerous" party thingy. But good information here, right? :)
What main conclusion did the Herschels draw from their star counts?
The Milky Way is a disk of stars with the sun near the center.
