2006-07-27 12:23:41 · 22 answers · asked by Ramya K 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
A candy bar? Some stars and planets in space?
2006-07-27 12:25:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Milky Way bar was created in 1923 by Frank C. Mars and was the first filled candy bar. It is named after a milkshake that was popular at the time.[citation needed]
The product sold in the United States is different from the one sold elsewhere. The U.S. Milky Way is similar to the Mars Bar sold elsewhere. The worldwide Milky Way bar is similar to the American 3 Musketeers bar.
The American version of the Milky Way bar is made of chocolate-malt nougat topped with caramel and covered with milk chocolate, whereas the European version is not topped with caramel. Its taste was inspired by the chocolate-malt milkshake that was popular at the time. On March 10, 1925, the name Milky Way became a trademark. In 1926, the Milky Way bar was introduced nationally in two flavors, chocolate and vanilla, each for a nickel. In June of 1932, the Milky Way bar was sold as a two piece bar, but just four years later, in 1936, the chocolate and vanilla flavors forever parted.
2006-07-27 19:29:42 · answer #2 · answered by kl0wnie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Milky Way is the galaxy we are in. A galaxy is a large disk of stars, gas, and dust. The Milky way is about 100,000 light years across and contains 200 billion or so stars.
What you can see of it in the night sky, if you get away from city light pollution, is a band of hazy light. We are seeing the disk edge-on from the inside. The center of the galaxy is towards the constellation Sagittarius, which is currently in the southern sky after dark. The dark areas in the Milky Way, most obvious in Cygnus in the northern hemisphere, and Crux in the southern, are clouds of gas and dust.
2006-07-27 19:40:08 · answer #3 · answered by injanier 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Milky way. A candy bar and the galaxy we live in. Thousands of stars and space junk. Named by the Greeks because they thought that the white, foggy line they saw in the sky was the milk of a Greek goddess and then made a galaxy. Get it? Good. I'm talking about the galaxy here.
2006-07-27 19:33:32 · answer #4 · answered by aximili12hp 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the galaxy we are in. It is called the Milky Way because of ledgends about it being a river poured out of a gourd (the asterism of the Big Dipper). It looks like a band across the sky because we are in the outer portions of the disk so there are more stars visible as you look towards the interior of the disk. The Milky Way orbits around Sagitarius.
2006-07-27 19:29:29 · answer #5 · answered by Marie S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Milkyway is the name of our galaxy in English. I believe in some other languages the name of it is simply translated to have the same meaning....it was so named because it looks like a streak of milk in the sky (shepherds named it of course).
2006-07-27 19:27:52 · answer #6 · answered by minuteblue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Milky Way is the NAME of the Galaxy that we live in. Our Earth is located in one of the "spiral arms" if the Galaxy known as the "Orion Arm"...and on a clear, dark night, you can look up into the heavens and actually see that "milky arm" of our Galaxy. Our entire Galaxy is about 100,000 lightyears across in diameter, and about 10,000 lightyears thick at its "central Hub". That means that if you were to traval at the "speed of light" (186,300 mph)...it would take you 100,000 YEARS just to travel across the diameter of our Milky Way Galaxy. Mind-boggling isn't it?? And think about this: there are more than 500,000,000,000,000 "Galaxies" in the known "Universe"!! Our closest Galaxy, the "Andromeda Galaxy", is 2.2 MILLIION lightyears away! That means that travelling at lightspeed, it would take YOU 2.2 million YEARS to reach our nearest Galaxy in the Universe. And ALL GALAXIES are separated from each other by distances even greater than THAT!! Our "Universe" is so unbelievably VAST that it exceeds the comprehension of our puny, finite minds!! At "light speed", it takes less than 2 seconds for light to reach from the distance between the Earth and the Moon!...and about 8 minutes for light from the Sun to reach the Earth. So can you imagine taking 100,000 YEARS to travel at that speed just to cross the distance of our Galaxy?? It's beyond our comprehension. Anyway, THAT is what the "Milky Way" is...it is a "spiral arm" near the outer edges of entire Galaxy where Earth is located in our vast Galaxy...called "The Milky Way Galaxy". I hope this has educated you just a little about the size of our "home" in the "Universe". Good Hunting...of the Stars.
2006-07-27 20:00:25 · answer #7 · answered by LARRY M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we are on the outskirts of the Galaxy, so when you see the milkyway, that is just the rest of it.. oh, and a bleah candy bar, that is like snikers without the fun.
2006-07-27 19:28:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Milky Way is the galaxy we are in. It is a flat disc-like galaxy, and since we are admist all the stars of that galaxy, when we look out, we see a strip of stars that line the sky. It looks like milk splashed into the sky, so we call it the milky way.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Milky_Way_1e_md.jpg/800px-Milky_Way_1e_md.jpg
2006-07-27 19:26:42 · answer #9 · answered by ymingy@sbcglobal.net 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A candy bar and the galaxy u live in
2006-07-27 19:27:46 · answer #10 · answered by Life Is Great 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Milky Way is the galaxy -- a bunch of stars clustered together -- that we live in.
2006-07-27 19:28:55 · answer #11 · answered by Isis-sama 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋