Milky Way

milky ways  Like early explorers mapping the continents of our globe, astronomers are busy charting the spiral structure of our galaxy, the Milky Way  the Milky Way definition: 1 the galaxy that includes the earth, seen at night as a pale strip across the sky… Learn more

We live in one of the arms of a large spiral galaxy called the Milky Way The Sun and its planets lie in this quiet part In the simplest telling, it held that our Milky Way galaxy came together nearly 14 billion years ago when enormous clouds of gas and dust

The Milky Way is our galactic home, part of the story of how we came to be Astronomers have learned that it's a large spiral galaxy, similar to many others It is just one of hundreds of billions of galaxies in the Universe, and ours is called the Milky Way because the disk of the galaxy appears to