The Milky Way Galaxy 31212 Art

milky ways  The notion of a galactic habitable zone , or regions of the Milky Way galaxy that preferentially maintain the conditions to sustain complex life, has We live in one of the arms of a large spiral galaxy called the Milky Way The Sun and its planets lie in this quiet part

Our Milky Way galaxy is the island of stars we call home If you imagine it as a disk with spiral arms emanating from the center, our sun is Every star that you see in the sky is part of the same enormous galaxy Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100

Many don't realize that galaxies like the Milky Way actually have “spiral arms ” These are pinwheels within the galaxy that are made up of stars, planets,  Milky Way a faint band of light crossing the sky, clearly visible on dark moonless nights and discovered by Galileo to be made up of vast numbers of faint stars