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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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.
I like the new input. those facts are mind blasting
The One who created all these is MAGNIFICENT and truly AWESOME!
Wow! Special dedication goes to cosmoligist physicist for there extremely work of discovery
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
i like space a lot.
THANK YOU FOR THE FACTS IT HELPED ME WITH MY PROJET
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Anything to do w/space is amazing.
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