What are the characteristics of your Milky Way?

Answer 1

• We live in it.
• It is 100,000 light years wide
• We are about 26,000 light years from the centre.
  
• We travel around the centre at about 515,000 mph
• It is a barred spiral galaxy
• It is about 13.2 billion years old
• In about 3 billion years time it will "merge" with the Andromeda Galaxy
• It contains between 200 and 400 billion stars
• There is a super massive black hole at it's centre.
• It has four main arms - of which we are in one of them. (Orion-Cygnus arm)
• It is part of the "Local Group"
• Which is part of the Virgo Supercluster.
• It was called the Milky Way because early people believed it was spilt milk.
  

1. The milky way has a super massive black hole at the center.

2. The milky way is a spiral galaxy.

Answer 2

The Milky Way galaxy is a collection of billions of stars, and the various planets, comets, and other objects in orbit around those stars, as well as other astronomical objects such as a large black hole believed to be in the center, and various interstellar dust and gas clouds, all of which are in orbit around their common center of mass; this is also the galaxy in which our own star, Sol, is located. We are in the Milky Way galaxy.

The galaxy we live in is called the milky way because it appears as a milky white band across the night sky. We are located in one of the outer spiral arms of the pin-wheel shaped assortment of billions of stars all held together by the gravity of a massive black hole at the galactic center.

Answer 3

Considering you are here, it's your milky way too. The milky way is a large, wavy galaxy full of many stars that runs through a large portion of the known universe.

Answer 4

The Milky Way doesn't have an atmosphere.

Answer 5

its not from the milkyway