It is not actually. The Greeks thought it was the fountain of milk from the goddessHera's breast.The milky way galaxy gots its name because the milky way looks like a trickle of spilled milk
It appears milky because it's made from so many stars that from a distance, it looks milky.If you look at the Milky Way from somewhere where the sky is really dark, it looks like someone spilled...
No, there isn't.The milky way is the name given to the band of stars we see due to the flattened disk-like characteristic shape of our galaxy. We can call our galaxy the milky way galaxy.
There isn't one. really. If there is a difference, you could say that the Milky Way is the milky band of light as seen from Earth, whereas the Milky Way Galaxy is the whole galaxy, which includes...