2006-07-15 02:52:49 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
OK. It is the galaxy we are in. It is about 100,000 light years across and 2,000 light years thick. It has a central bulge that is about 6000 light years thick. It is a barbed spiral galaxy that is slightly distorted by the campanion galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds. Our sun is about 30,000 light years from the center, which has a 4 million solar mass black hole. The following link shows a galaxy that probably looks fairly close to the way that the Milky Way looks:
http://www.seds.org/messier/more/m061_more.html
2006-07-15 03:01:31 · answer #1 · answered by mathematician 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Plz be specific abt what u wanna know.Our galaxy SOLAR SYSTEM is known as Akash Ganga or the Milky way because when u view it from thousands n thousands light years away it looks like a dim light....and as far as our galaxy is concerned it's in motion in vacuum space...
2006-07-15 10:12:55 · answer #2 · answered by Wolverine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First you have to spell it correctly.
When I was really small my dad took me to the library one day. He was looking at an astronomy book and falling asleep. I decided to try and keep him awake, so I pointed at the big photo on the page before him and I said "Dad, what's that?"
He mumbled "The Milky Way." And that was the first time I had heard of such a thing. And I wasn't sure I had heard correctly anyway.
2006-07-15 10:30:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the galaxy in which our solar system resides. We see it as a band of faint light across the night sky.
2006-07-15 09:56:17 · answer #4 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why ask such a stupid question
u can always search them on some site relatd 2 space likemaybe space.com
2006-07-15 09:57:55 · answer #5 · answered by asha 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have no idea
2006-07-15 09:55:40 · answer #6 · answered by mayri 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋