The milky way galaxy from earth. Some of the twinkling stars that spangle earths skies are relics from the earliest beginnings of the milky way galaxy astronomers have discovered. The milky way is a large barred spiral galaxy. The milky way galaxy more commonly known as the milky way or just the galaxy is the galaxy that mankind calls home and in which the imperium of man and all of the other starfaring intelligent species known to humanity are located. It turns out that the lmc is set to smack straight into our galaxy.
A hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eyethe term milky way is a translation of the latin via lactea from the greek galaxias kyklos galaxias kyklos milky circle. A galaxy is a huge bunch of stars clustered together in space. What they found was astonishing. The milky way galaxy is most significant to humans because it is home sweet home.
Even though the galaxy is 63000 light years from the milky way and currently heading away from us at a rate of 250 miles per second it is set to eventually slow down and head back towards us. Milky way galaxy sometimes simply called the galaxy large spiral system of about several hundred billion stars one of which is the sun. The earth is our home and it feels like it has been here forever and will always be there. Formed within a few billion years of the big.
A galaxy is a gravitationally bound system of stars stellar remnants interstellar gas dust and dark matter. The word galaxy is derived from the greek galaxias galaxias literally milky a reference to the milky waygalaxies range in size from dwarfs with just a few hundred million 10 8 stars to giants with one hundred trillion 10 14 stars each orbiting its galaxys center. Our sun a star and all the planets around it are part of a galaxy known as the milky way galaxya galaxy is a large group of stars gas and dust bound together by gravitythey come in a variety of shapes and sizes. However its not so easy and safe in space and it looks like the milky way is at risk.
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. The milky way galaxy in the late 41st millennium. The milky way is a barred spiral galaxy that is part of the local group of galaxies.