The Milky Way and Its Neighbors

milky way galaxy  In 1610, Galileo made the first telescopic survey of the Milky Way and discovered that it is composed of a multitude of individual stars Today, Milky Way Galaxy , large spiral system of about several hundred billion stars, one of which is the Sun

The Sun is just one of 200 billion stars in this typical barred spiral galaxy that is about 90 000 light years in diameter The Milky Way It should be milky way, See also: sky-river, galaxy, universe, Syn ทางช้างเผือก, Count Unit: ทาง, Thai Definition: ทางช้างเผือกในตำราดาว, Notes: Volubilis

The term 'Milky Way', once used simply to refer to the misty arch of stars in the night sky, was later adopted as the name for our Galaxy as a whole In the The Milky Way is a galaxy in which the Solar System and the planet Earth are located There are around 400 billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy, and one of