Milky Way

Axîntei Alexandra Georgiana

Ticu Alexandra Vasilica
 Content

-What is a galaxy?
-Types of galaxies.
-What is a Milky Way?
-Milky Way Galaxy.
 What is a galaxy?

A galaxy is a mass system, united by gravitational forces,

made up of an agglomeration of stars, dust and interstellar
gas as well as, but still unproven, invisible dark matter and
dark energy. There are about 200 billion galaxies in the
universe
 There are two main categories
of galaxies:
• spiral galaxies
• elliptical galaxies
 Milky Way
The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains
our Solar System, with the name describing
the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy
band of light seen in the night sky formed
from stars that cannot be individually
distinguished by the naked eye.
 Our Sun (a star) and all the
planets around it are part of a
galaxy known as the Milky Way
Galaxy. A galaxy is a large group of
stars, gas, and dust bound together
by gravity. They come in a variety
of shapes and sizes. The Milky Way
is a large barred spiral galaxy. All
the stars we see in the night sky are
in our own Milky Way Galaxy. Our
galaxy is called the Milky Way
because it appears as a milky band
of light in the sky when you see it
in a really dark area.
The band of the Milky Way galaxy can
be seen at night in areas with dark skies.
Here it is seen with several Atacama
Large Millimeter/submillimeter Arra
(ALMA) antenna. (Credit: ESO/B.
Tafreshi)
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 billion and 400
billion other stars, many of them with planets
of their own.
 The Milky Way got its name from the way it looks
from the ground: like a streak of spilt milk across the
sky. That hazy white band is made up of stars, dust and
gas.
The spiral is made up of four huge
arms of stars connected by a
straight bar at the galaxy’s centre.
The arm that’s home to Earth is a
smaller one called the Orion arm,
where our solar system resides
about 26,000 light years
from galactic centre.
Spitzer reveals what cannot be seen in visible light: cooler stars (blue), heated dust
(reddish hue), and Sgr A*as bright white spot in the middle.
 O imagine din cer arată planul plan al galaxiei Calea Lactee. (Credit: EL
Wright / UCLA, The COBE Project, DIRBE, NASA)
 Since we can't get outside the
Milky Way, we have to rely on
markers of spiral arms like young,
massive stars and ionized clouds.
This artist's conception of the
Milky Way's spiral structure is
based on the measured distances
of young, hot stars (shown in red)
and ionized clouds of hydrogen
gas (shown in blue). (Credit:
Credit: Urquhart JS, et al.; Robert
Hurt, the Spitzer Science Center;
Robert Benjamin)
 The Milky Way arching at a high inclination
across the night sky,
(this composited panorama was taken at Paranal
Observatory in northern Chile), the bright object
is Jupiter in the constellation Sagittarius, and
the Magellanic Cloud can be seen on the left;
galactic north is downward
 Our best estimates tell us that the Milky Way is made up of approximately
100 billion stars. These stars form a large disk whose diameter is about
100,000 light years.
 Our Solar System is about 25,000 light years away
from the center of our galaxy – we live in the suburbs
of our galaxy. Just as the Earth goes around the Sun, the
Sun goes around the center of the Milky Way .
https://www.newscientist.com/term/milky-way/#ixzz6i2xSSuPn
https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/milkyway1.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way#Formation
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