The Milky Way Galaxy

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

Like early explorers mapping the continents of our globe, astronomers are busy charting the spiral structure of our galaxy, the Milky Way  Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is an island of starlight It has spiral arms, a bar across its center, and at least one black hole at its core

This map shows the full extent of the Milky Way galaxy This map shows the full extent of the Milky Way galaxy