What galaxy is our solar system in?

Answer 1

The Milky Way galaxy.

Answer 2

Milky Way Galaxy

Answer 3

Ignore those haters who said Milky Way they are liars. Our solar system is in a galaxy called Andromeda.

Answer 4

Milky Way

Answer 5

Milky Way

Answer 6

Milky Way

Answer 7

The Snickers Galaxy. Either that or Milky Way, I can never remember which.

Answer 8

That would be the Milky Way galaxy....

Answer 9

The Milky Way, so named from the Latin Via Lactea, in turn derived from the Greek Γαλαξίας (Galaxias), sometimes referred to simply as "the Galaxy"), is a barred spiral galaxy which forms part of the Local Group.

Although the Milky Way is but one of billions of galaxies in the universe, the Galaxy has special significance to humanity as it is the home of the Solar System. Democritus (450 BC–370 BC) was the first known person to claim that the Milky Way consists of distant stars.

The term "milky" originates from the hazy band of white light appearing across the celestial sphere visible from Earth, which comprises stars and other material lying within the galactic plane. The galaxy appears brightest in the direction of Sagittarius, towards the galactic center. Relative to the celestial equator, the Milky Way passes as far north as the constellation of Cassiopeia and as far south as the constellation of Crux, indicating the high inclination of Earth's equatorial plane and the plane of the ecliptic relative to the galactic plane.

The fact that the Milky Way divides the night sky into two roughly equal hemispheres indicates that the solar system lies close to the galactic plane.

The main disk of the Milky Way Galaxy is about 80,000 to 100,000 light years in diameter, about 250-300 thousand light years in circumference, and outside the Galactic core, about 1,000 light years in thickness. It is composed of 200 to 400 billion stars. The Galactic Halo extends out to 250,000 to 400,000 light years in diameter.

According to Greek mythology, the Milky Way was formed by Hera, who spilled milk in the sky after discovering that Zeus had tricked her into feeding young Heracles. In another variant, Hermes snuck Heracles into Olympus to drink from the breasts of Hera who was asleep. Heracles bit Hera's nipple shooting her milk into the skies forming the Milky Way.

In Finnish mythology the Milky Way was called Linnunrata (pathway of the birds). The Finns observed the migratory birds used the galaxy as a guideline to travel south, where they believed Lintukoto (bird home) resided.

Only later the scientists indeed confirmed the observation correct; the migratory birds use the Milky Way as a guide and dwell the winters in warm, southern lands. The Milky Way is even today called Linnunrata in the Finnish language.

In Swedish, the Milky Way is known as Vintergatan (winter street), for apparent reasons; it is most visible in the winter in Scandinavia.

Ancient Armenian mythology called the Milky Way the "Straw Thief's Way", relating to one of the gods stealing straw and attempting to flee across the heavens in a wooden chariot, spilling some of the straw along the way.

In Hindu mythology the galaxy is called the s'is'umara cakra: the dolphin disc. Looking in the night sky one recognized the band of stars as the belly of a dolphin.

In Slovene, the galaxy is called Rimska cesta, literally "The Roman Road" (or "The Road to Rome", alluding to the ancient pilgrim path). Sometimes, infrequently, it is also called Mlečna cesta, which is a literal translation of its Greek/Latin name. i.e. "Milky Way".

In Spanish, the galaxy is sometimes called "Camino de Santiago", "The Road to Santiago ", alluding to the ancient pilgrim road to the town of Santiago de Compostela, in Spain.

Answer 10

the milky way