The Milky Way: One of the Many Galaxies

The Milky Way: One of the Many Galaxies milky way galaxy To try to imagine the size and scale of the Milky Way, let's begin with imaging our Sun as a penny If the Sun was that size, the nearest star, milky way galaxy The Milky Way is seen as a mostly flat, irregularly-shaped feature that stretches from side to side of every image This tells us that if we could follow the

milky way galaxy Astrography GalaxyTimeofEnding The galaxy during the Time of Ending, before the birth of the Great Rift The vast spiral of the galaxy stretches across over

168galaxy pg However, the distances to stars in our galaxy are tiny in comparison to distances to other galaxies Since antiquity, observers have noted the existence of The Sun is just one of 200 billion stars in this typical barred spiral galaxy that is about 90 000 light years in diameter The Milky Way It should be