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Galaxy in Details Thesis

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy approximately 100,000–200,000 light-years in diameter, containing 100–400 billion stars and various forms of matter. Its structure includes a galactic core with a supermassive black hole, a bulge of stars, a disk with spiral arms, and a halo of old stars and dark matter. The Milky Way is part of the Local Group and is moving through space at about 600 km/s, with a predicted collision with the Andromeda galaxy in 4.5 billion years.

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Galaxy in Details Thesis

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy approximately 100,000–200,000 light-years in diameter, containing 100–400 billion stars and various forms of matter. Its structure includes a galactic core with a supermassive black hole, a bulge of stars, a disk with spiral arms, and a halo of old stars and dark matter. The Milky Way is part of the Local Group and is moving through space at about 600 km/s, with a predicted collision with the Andromeda galaxy in 4.5 billion years.

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Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a vast spiral galaxy that contains our solar system.

It is estimated
to be about 100,000–200,000 light-years in diameter and contains 100–400 billion stars along
with massive amounts of gas, dust, and dark matter.

Structure of the Milky Way

1.​ Galactic Core – At the center lies a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*.
2.​ Bulge – A dense, spherical region of stars surrounding the core.
3.​ Disk – Contains spiral arms filled with stars, nebulae, and star-forming regions.
4.​ Halo – A vast outer region of old stars and dark matter surrounding the galaxy.

Interesting Facts

●​ The Milky Way is part of the Local Group, a cluster of galaxies that includes
Andromeda and Triangulum.
●​ It is moving at about 600 km/s through space.
●​ Andromeda and the Milky Way are expected to collide in about 4.5 billion years.
●​ Our solar system is located in the Orion Arm, about 27,000 light-years from the center.

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