What is the name of our galaxy and who named it and when?

Answer 1

Our galaxy is the Milky Way.

The story I heard spoke of a Greek god who was carrying cans of milk to Mt. Olympus when he tripped and spilled the milk across the sky. The milk became the band of stars we see splashed across the night sky.

Answer 2

The Milky Way is a faint white milky streak across the sky. It is best seen far away from city lights.
It is actually the inside of the disc of the Milky Way Galaxy. We live in this disc. Light from stars in the disk is blurred by the gas or hidden by dust clouds in the disc.
The ancient astronomers called this streak the Milky Way. That is why our Galaxy is often called the Milky Way Galaxy.
Nobody is sure how the Milky Way got its strange name. The ancient Greeks had several stories about it.

Here are some good links:

http://www.historyoftheuniverse.com/milky2.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/more/mw.html

Answer 3

The Milky Way (a translation of the Latin Via Lactea, in turn derived from the Greek Γαλαξίας (Galaxias), sometimes referred to simply as "the Galaxy")

Answer 4

Milky Way

Answer 5

I thin kits the Milky Way. I don't know who named it or when. Probably Haley or some famous astronomer.

Answer 6

The Milky Way. Don't know the rest.

Answer 7

It was named after the candy bar.

Answer 8

Other civilisations call this galaxy "Mutter's Spiral."