6 Random Facts about the Milky Way Galaxy
Most of us know that we live in a galaxy known as the Milky Way. However, not many of us really know very much about our own galaxy. Here are 6 interesting and random facts about the Milky Way Galaxy that will help expand your knowledge about it.
- Any stars that you can see in the night sky without the aid of a telescope are part of the Milky Way.
- It is estimated that the Milky Way contains between 200 and 400 billion stars.
- Our solar system makes up an extremely tiny part of the Milky Way – if you imagine our solar system were the size of a US quarter, the entire Milky Way would be almost half the size of the United States!
- Edwin Hubble is credited as conclusively defining the shape and scope of our galaxy through the use of telescopes.
- The size of the Milky Way is approximately 100,000 light-years in diameter.
- The mass of our galaxy is estimated at 5.8 × 1011 solar masses. A solar mass is a unit of mass equivalent to the mass of our Sun.
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It’s amazing how people can come up with such amazing facts like this
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Why No One Comments Who Has Created Such Believable And Unbelievable Facts Of This Universe ?
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those facts are amazingly Intresting. I mean, who comes up with all this and how did they even know how and where to find it. CRAAAAAZZYY STUFF DUDE.
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I like the new input. those facts are mind blasting
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Emily replied:
April 11th, 2015 at 3:04 pm
thank you
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The One who created all these is MAGNIFICENT and truly AWESOME!
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Wow! Special dedication goes to cosmoligist physicist for there extremely work of discovery
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with the milky way how does the milky way ever get to fill the dark sky out in the outer space at night. from Wendy Sells
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i like space a lot.
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THANK YOU FOR THE FACTS IT HELPED ME WITH MY PROJET
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haha wow
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Anything to do w/space is amazing.
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