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.
now i should get an a on this thing
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Sophie S replied:
March 6th, 2012 at 2:14 pm
This is totally awesome! This is helping my report for school!
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this has really helped me alot with my science project thank you ho ever wrote this (:
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MILKY WAY IS VERY INTERESTING.
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working on a space project will these facts get me an A i need
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Love the Milky Way…….as a Galaxy, it is so small…….You should see the 100’s of Millions of other galaxies…….and to think some idiots think we are the only lifeforms!!!!
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thanks
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this was pretty helpful. THANK YOU 😀
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Thanks for helping me with my Expert Day Project 🙂 🙂 🙂
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thanks it helped:)
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awesome
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You are a very well educated writer and you gave me all the information i need so thank you.
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thankz for your help it really help me so much 🙂
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Wow I sure Learnd a lot
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I herd about the black hole.
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Boy do i love the milky way! :}
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Michelle replied:
May 14th, 2012 at 11:08 am
Me tooo! this helped me so much!
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Your facts helped me with my project.
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wow, i learned a lot from this info. really! i did not know about that many stars in a galaxy or anything else in the outer space until later in my adult years. taking science classes has taught me plenty about where i live.
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