Milkyway

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Milky Way quick facts Galaxy type Barred spiral Age 13 6 billion years and counting Size 100 000 light years across Number of stars about 200 billion Rotation time

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Milky Way Galaxy sometimes simply called the Galaxy large spiral system of about several hundred billion stars one of which is the Sun It takes its name from the Milky Way the irregular luminous band of stars and gas clouds that stretches across the sky as seen from Earth

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Like early explorers mapping the continents of our globe astronomers are busy charting the spiral structure of our galaxy the Milky Way Using infrared images from NASA s Spitzer Space Telescope scientists have discovered that the Milky Way s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars

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NASA Telescopes Find New Clues About Mysterious Deep Space Signals Article 4 Min Read NASA s Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of Milky Way Article NASA Telescope Data Becomes Music You Can Play Article Why NASA s Roman Mission Will Study Milky Way s Flickering Lights

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From NASA s Science Mission Directorate website Our galaxy the Milky Way is typical it has hundreds of billions of stars enough gas and dust to make billions more stars and at least ten times as much dark matter as all the stars and gas put together And it s all held together by gravity

https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/what-is-the-milky-way-galaxy
The stars of the Milky Way merge together into a single band of light But through a telescope we see the Milky Way for what it truly is a spiral arm of our galaxy What is the Milky Way

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Like other galaxies the Milky Way is an isolated collection of stars and other material bound together by their common gravity In addition to the 100 billion to 400 billion stars in our galaxy

https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/milkyway1.html
Our Sun a star and all the planets around it are part of a galaxy known as the Milky Way Galaxy A galaxy is a large group of stars gas and dust bound together by gravity They come in a variety of shapes and sizes The

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03432-9
Billion star map of Milky Way set to transform astronomy Gaia lifted off in late 2013 and began observing stars in July 2014 from a perch 1 5 million kilometres from Earth The European Space