A New Map of the Milky Way

A New Map of the Milky Way milky way galaxy The Milky Way is a huge collection of stars, dust and gas It's called a spiral galaxy because if you could view it from the top or bottom, it would look like a milky way Yet, our own galaxy does not appear in any index of galaxies So, it needed a name for astronomers to refer to it by Thus we call it the Milky

milky way A view from space to a spiral galaxy and stars Universe filled with stars,

g2g galaxy 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 The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy around billion years old with large pivoting arms stretching out across the cosmos