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    The Milky Way is flat and disk shaped collection of gas dust and stars. It is 100,000 light years across and 7,000 light years thick. The Milky Way’s dish has two major spiral arms and two minor ones that comes together in of the galaxy. In the center of the disk is a cylinder bar that has a collection of old red stars. The Milky Way is visible on a moonless night only if you are in very dark spot where you would see a faint fuzzy glow in the sky. If Sagittarius and Scorpius are visible you notice

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    The Milky Way There are galaxies like between 300 billion and 500 billion in the space. One of them is the Milky Way. The first time Democritus explored the Milky Way in 450 - 370 B.C. Democritus thought that the Milky Way is composed the hundreds of stars. Then Aristo researched the Milky Way. Aristo's ideas about the Milky Way were token shape with combustion of stars. Then Ibn-i Heysem, Ibn Bacce, Ibn Kayyim El Cevziyye explored the Milky Way. The first time Galileo Galile explored with a telescope

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    The Size of the Milky Way – Shapley correctly asserted that the diameter of the Milky Way Galaxy was much larger than the “conventional” scale based on star counts, but then incorrectly concluded that similar-sized galaxies beyond our own could not exist. Curtis incorrectly accepted the smaller size for our Galaxy, but correctly argued that similar galaxies might exist beyond our own. Distribution of the Nebulae in the Sky – Curtis noted that the observed spiral nebulae were generally found away

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    In about 4 billion years, the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will collide. The two neighbouring galaxies are located in a collection of other galaxies acknowledged as the local group. This group contains more than 50 galaxies, with a majority of them being dwarf galaxies. The largest and most massive of galaxies are the Milky Way, Andromeda, and the Triangulum galaxy. All three of these have a gathering of satellite galaxies surrounding them. Just like how planets orbit around the sun, these smaller

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    The Milky Way is a galaxy along with hundreds of billions other galaxies that are located around our entire universe. “The Milky Way” also known as our galaxy is a translation from the Latin (Via Lactea) and is also resulting from the Greek word Kiklios Galaxios, meaning milky circle. If you can locate somewhere there’s a dark sky, the plane of the Milky Way will appear as a swath of light across the sky during night time. There is a myth from the Greek for the origin of the Milky Way stating that

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    The Milky Way Galaxy Essay

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    Once microwave radiation was discovered, studies improved on the Milky Way Galaxy. Its Doppler Shift can be used to map the motion of gas in it. Also, with radio telescopes, hydrogen gas can now be traced. When the Hubble Space Telescope was introduced in 1990, that made exploring space so much easier and more efficient. That’s how we discovered so much about our universe- including galaxies! The Milky Way received its name from the milky, white band of stars that go across the celestial sphere visible

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    so-called encounters with aliens in Earth’s atmosphere for many millenniums now, does this serve as proof aliens exist? The Milky Way in which we live in is expanding 3.25 million light years per second (Moskowitz). By the time you finish reading this paper, the Milky Way will have expanded by 1.9 million light years. This might be a lot but the closest galaxy to the Milky Way is 13.2 billion light years away. This means there is a chance extra-terrestrial life might exist by the time you finish reading

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    The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. The descriptive "milky" is derived from the appearance from Earth of the galaxy a band of light seen in the night. From Earth, the Milky Way appears as a band because its disk shaped structure is viewed from within. Galileo Galilei first resolved the band of light into individual stars with his telescope in 1610. Until the early 1920s most astronomers thought that the Milky Way contained all the stars in the Universe. Following the 1920

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    The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our solar system. Its name “ Milky” was derived from its appearance as a dim glowing band arching across the night sky whose individual stars cannot be distinguished by the naked eye. The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, which means it spiral out from the middle. The first and most obvious thing to talk about is how it was formed. It began as an oversized mass left behind after the big bang. The Big Bang theory is an effort to explain what happened

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    Milky Way Shows That Stars Are On the Move The Draw of the Milky Way Stargazing is often thought to be something lovers would do on a date or something of a hobby. Astronomers and scientists of all kinds make their careers out of it every day. The beauty of the Milky Way is one that is otherworldly. This is what makes it so fascinating. The Map of the Milky Way Therefore it is no surprise that scientists put together a map of the Milky Way for observational purposes. However recently, a press

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