What is Milkyway Galaxy??
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- The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth
- a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.
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- Age: 13.51 billion years
- Radius: 52,850 light years
- Escape velocity: 550 km/s
- Number of stars: 100–400 billion
- Distance: 25.6–27.1 kly (7.86–8.32 kpc)
- Constellations: Orion, Sagittarius, Scorpius, Carina, Ara, Canis Major
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The Milky Way, the galaxy we call home, contains between 200 and 400 billion stars of different sizes, intensities and ages. In amongst all these stars, there's also a lot of gas and dust floating around. This interstellar gas makes up around 5 per cent of the Milky Way's mass.
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