Question

What is the galaxy we live in commonly called?
Andromeda
Orion's Belt
The solar system
The Milky way

Answer 1

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⭐What is the galaxy we live in commonly called?⭐

⭐The Milky way⭐

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Answer 2

Answer : The Milky Way

Extra information :

A vast collection of billions of stars along with vast amount of hydrogen and dust in an isolated space in the universe is called galaxy.

Therr are about 100 billion galaxies $(10^{11} \ galaxies)$ in the universe and each galaxy has on an average 100 billion stars. So, the total number of stars in the universe is $10^{22}$ stars.

The two important galaxies in the universe are :

(1) Milky way galaxy.

(2) Andromeda galaxy.

Our own sun and its family of planets belong to the milky way galaxy whose Indian name is Akash Ganga.

Its diameter is about 1 lac light year and the thickness of the middle part is about 15 to 20 thousand light years. As already noted, our sun is at 30,000 light years away from the galactic center. It completes one revolution around the galactic center in 22.5 crore years at the speed of 250 km per second.