4Milkyway



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The Milky Way was born 11.6 to 16.4 billion years go. The Milky Way is a the galaxy that is home to our solar system with at least 200 billion to 400 billion stars. The Milky Way has a mass probably 750 billion and 1 trillion. Its diameter is at about 100,000 light years. Meaning, it would take 100,000 light years to travel from one side of the milky way to the other side of the Milky Way. The clouds in the Milky way are made out of hydrogen. The Milky Way is in a spiral shape. It is also one of the many galaxies in the universe. We live in the western part of the milky way. Earth is located in the edge of one of the spiral arms in the mlky way called "Orion Spur". media type="custom" key="3499496" The Milky Way got its name from the ancients because int he sky it looked like a river of milk in the sky. In about 20 million years the Milky Way will soon conclide with another galaxy called Armoda which is also our sister. The Milky way is thought to be A Barred Spiral type of galaxy. So far there are over 170 planets in the Milky Way. The most common stars in the Milky Way is ther White Dwarf Star. The Milky Way will no longer grow. It will stay the same size forever. The average temperature is 98.6 degree's F. The mass of the galaxy is estimated to be 5.8X10 to the 11th power solar powers. In 1994 there was another galaxy found that was going to be colliding with the Milky Way soon
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