Question

What is the milky way? What is it named so?

Answer 1

The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. The name describes 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.

Radius: 52,850.0417 light years
Stars: 25,000 crores ± 15,000 crores
Sun's Galactic rotation period: 240 Myr







The Romans named it via lactea precisely because it looks like a milky patch of sky above the Earth at night. But, the Romans weren't the first to name the galaxy. The Romans got the name from the Greeks, who called it galaxias kyklos, which translates into “milky circle.”

Answer 2

MILKY WAY

• Milky Way is a galaxy or a collection of Solar System

• Our Solar System is within the Milky Way

• It is a huge band of stars , solar systems , dark matter , light , nebulae , etc.

• In the middle of the Milky Way , there is a huge Black Hole.

• In fact every Galaxy has a Black Hole.

• The Milky Way is visible from the Earth and is visible in our naked eye.

• The Milky Way was first observed by Galileo who invented the telescope.

WHY IT IS CALLED SO?

• The Milky Way appears from the Earth as a white band of light in the form of a circle or a patch

• It is white in colour and hence it was called the Milky Way

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