who is the person or scientist for the discovery of the milky way?

Answer 1

The Milky Way has been known since ancient times, as it is an obvious feature in a dark sky. Galileo was the first to recognize that it was composed of countless tiny stars. Many astronomers, from William Herschel on, speculated that it was just one of many such "island universes", but it wasn't until Edwin Hubble estimated the distance to the Andromeda galaxy using Cepheid variables that this was confirmed.

Answer 2

For the viewing of the milky way, as it is so visible, it is first viewed in pre-historic times.

The Greek philosopher Democritus (450 BC–370 BC) was the first known person to propose that the Milky Way might consist of distant stars. Actual proof of this came in 1610 when Galileo Galilei used a telescope to study the Milky Way and discovered that it was composed of a huge number of faint stars. In a treatise in 1755, Immanuel Kant, drawing on earlier work by Thomas Wright, speculated (correctly) that the Milky Way might be a rotating body of a huge number of stars, held together by gravitational forces akin to the Solar System but on much larger scales.

Answer 3

Probably the earliest man that wondered about the heavens, around 7 million years ago. Sahelanthropus chadensis. Democritus, however, was the first to propose a reasonable explanation for it, around 400 B.C.

Answer 4

The ancient Greeks gave the Milky Way its name because of its whitish color across the sky. Their mythology believed it was the milk spilled from Juno's breasts when her baby (who?) stopped sucking.