Relative Sizes of the Earth and the Milky Way Galaxy

milky way galaxy  The Milky Way Galaxy is a vast pinwheel of stars and gas turning within an enormous cloud of invisible matter Many generations of stars have formed and  Like early explorers mapping the continents of our globe, astronomers are busy charting the spiral structure of our galaxy, the Milky Way

Astronomers figured out that we live in a spiral galaxy by measuring the motions of gas throughout the disk—the large, pancake-shaped region Schematic of Milky Way showing the dark matter halo , globular clusters , the thick disk , the stellar disk (

You can see the spiral arms of our Milky Way These are bluish in colour and are filled with dust and gas and hot young stars The thin dark wisps in the image MilkyWay #Galaxy #Space #Звезды #Film #Kosmo A Journey around the Milky Way