a. pear
b. basketball
c. hard boiled egg
d. fried egg
2007-03-26 16:02:48 · 15 answers · asked by Unexpected 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0501/milkyway_garlick_big.jpg
Doesn't that look like a [D] Fried Egg to you?
2007-03-26 16:20:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fried Egg
2007-03-26 16:05:49 · answer #2 · answered by JD H 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Currently its a fried egg. Once the Milky Way collides with the Andromeda galaxy in several billion years the likely result will be a giant eliptical galaxy, i. e., a hard boiled egg.
2007-03-26 17:27:18 · answer #3 · answered by Michael da Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fried egg
2007-03-26 23:09:55 · answer #4 · answered by murnip 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
D fried egg
2007-03-26 16:05:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
D. Fried egg.
It isn't exactly that, since our galaxy is a barred spiral, but the fried egg is the closest of the 4 choices.
2007-03-26 16:05:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's d
"And we now know that our own galaxy is a spiral, at least when viewed from the top down. When we look at it from the side, it actually looks more like a fried egg, with most of its stars confined to a flat disk and a bulging yolk at the center. (~17sec)"
2007-03-26 16:07:14 · answer #7 · answered by johnslat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
D, the latest data indicates it is a barred spiral a little larger than the Andromeda galaxy.
2007-03-26 19:48:36 · answer #8 · answered by MSG 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we are someplace on the fringe of the Galactic airplane - research the region of the item usual as Sagittarius A on the problem of our celestial equator. we are also out in between the palms, usual as "The Orion Arm", because of our distance TO Sagittarius A.
2016-12-02 21:14:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
E. None of the above.
It's actually shaped like a motorcycle tire with nothing in the middle.
2007-03-26 16:26:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋