which type of galaxy is milkey way galaxy
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The Milky Way is a huge collection of stars, dust and gas. It's called a spiral galaxy because if you could view it from the top or bottom, it would look like a spinning pinwheel. The Sun is located on one of the spiral arms, about 25,000 light-years away from the center of the galaxy
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- The Milky Way[a] is the galaxy that contains our Solar System, and its name refers to how the galaxy appears from Earth.
- as a hazy strip of light in the night sky generated by stars that cannot be seen individually with the human eye.
- Because of its disk-shaped structure, the Milky Way appears as a band when viewed from within.
- In 1610, Galileo Galilei used his telescope to resolve the band of light into individual stars.
- Most astronomers believed that the Milky Way held all of the stars in the Universe until the early 1920s.
- Following the Great Debate between astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis in 1920, Edwin Hubble's investigations revealed that the Milky Way is one of many galaxies.
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