2006-10-10 04:00:31 · 24 answers · asked by vincegill 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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2006-10-10 04:04:28 · answer #1 · answered by zed 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For ancient peoples, the Milky Way held a special mythical importance...for instance
for the Egyptians. it was the Nile of the heavens..
in Egyptian mythos....an important tenet of their belief system was ...."as in the heavens, so it is on earth"
The Nile was the source of life...so was the Milky Way....the path of the "souls" into the heavens
For the Greeks [and the Romans that adopted their beliefs]
the story of the birth of Zeus and his subsequent rearing gave rise to the story that while he was nursing, his mouth slipped and the breast milk "shot" across the heavens...
and the name "milky" way was given....
for some myths the Milky Way was seen as the rift in the heavens, a scar of sorts, the sign of the original "seperation" of the heavens and the earth...
over all , in most early myths, the Milky Way was seen as the path taken to the heavens...or the path that the souls took when coming to earth to enter a person [either at birth or conception]
for Western mythos:
Hesiod and Ovid
Hamilton's "Mythology"
"Hamlet's Mill"
Campbell's "Masks of God" series
2006-10-10 11:21:54 · answer #2 · answered by Gemelli2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our solar system is located in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy.
The Milky Way galaxy looks like the Andromeda Galaxy. Same type of layout.
The band of cloudy light you see in a really dark night sky is the plane of the Milky Way galaxy. I can't recall seeing the core, though.
It's theorized that there's a black hole in the center of every spiral galaxy and the stars there are so densely packed they are less than a light month apart. (Average distance between stars in our neighborhood is between 4 and 7 light years)
2006-10-10 11:20:11 · answer #3 · answered by loryntoo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Milky Way is the galaxy which is the home of our Solar System together with at least 200 billion other stars (more recent estimates have given numbers around 400 billion) and their planets,
2006-10-10 11:08:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know the milky way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy billions of years from now. Think of it two WHOLE galaxies of stars colliding. I also liked the chocolate bar when I was in primary school.
2006-10-10 16:35:19 · answer #5 · answered by anon4112 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
until this century, astronomers thought that the milky way was the only galaxy in the universe, now they have shown that at least 100 billion galaxies exist.
our own Galaxy is called the milky way.
2006-10-10 11:29:46 · answer #6 · answered by Llush 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes....they used to do the original, but now they do a bad copy with white milky bit in the middle...horrible.
2006-10-10 11:04:37 · answer #7 · answered by jude 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We now theroise that every galaxy has a super massive black hole at the middle (including our very own milky way).
2006-10-10 11:11:26 · answer #8 · answered by Loader2000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There used to be an advert ages ago about red and blue (can't remember what they were) and they raced around the milky way!! :-)
2006-10-10 11:04:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yeah, it looks big
iwhat you see is actually a section of our galaxy. The galaxy has a center and branches which are roughly in a plan. The Earth is on the far side of one of these branches. When you look along the radius of the galaxy, you have this dense region in sight... imagine looking toward the center of a pizza when you live in the crust.
dunno if that's knowledge though...
2006-10-12 07:11:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only that it is part of one spiral arm of our fantastic galaxy. Best seen in the middle of a desert, hundreds of miles from the nearest street light.
2006-10-11 05:30:14 · answer #11 · answered by los 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋