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why people called our galaxy{milky way} in universe this name please help fast now I really need your answer
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Answer 1

Imagine that our galaxy is a bunch of stars that looks kind of like an octopus that is twirling around. Its arms of stars spiral out from the center. It is as if we are very tiny, on one of the arms, looking ahead and all we can see is the next arm. These "arms" are made out of trillions of stars.

The arm of stars that we see with the naked eye (without a telescope or anything like that) looks like a faint, white glow across the sky because most of the stars are too far away to be seen individually. This gives it a faint, white, milky appearance.

Since this milky arm of stars looks like a path across the sky, we called it "the Milky Way."

The Milky Way is our galaxy, and it is called a spiral galaxy because of its arms which appear to spiral from its center. It is kind of funny that our galaxy is named after how one of its arms appears to us.

Answer 2

The Milky Way is what we call the galaxy around us.
We call it that because it looks like spilled milk in the night sky above us.

The universe has billions of other galaxies, most don't have proper names, just numbers. But we have named a few, such as the Andromeda Galaxy, the Pinwheel Galaxy, the Sombrero Galaxy and others.

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")

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.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

When the ancient Greeks and Romans looked at the sky 2500 years ago, they saw this wide band of milky white dull light (just a huge bunch of distant stars in the next arm of our galaxy) and in their mythology, assigned it to be been some milk spilled by Hercules nursing, hence the name "milky way". Later, when telescopes allowed the required resolving power to determine the true nature of that band, and when those huge "island" of stars were recognized for what they were (other gaalxies), the term "galaxy" (which comes from the greek word for "milk") was used, and MilkyWay was retained for ours.
Same business that happened for the Earth, which simply took its name for the word for "soil".

Answer 6

the term galaxy derives from the greek word for milk(gala)

Answer 7

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