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15 unbelievable facts about the Milky Way
The Milky Way has troubled scientists and philosophers around the world for centuries.
This galaxy is our home;
The Milky Way has been associated with mythology from the dawn of time, across civilizations and nations, each with its own interpretation of the creation of the concept that surrounds the entire mind.
Here, we take a look at 15 amazing facts about the Milky Way.
Galileo first recognized the light band of the Milky Way as individual stars in 1620 but Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer, is said to have discovered the true shape and distance of the Strip.
The Milky Way and Andromeda, a spiral galaxy, are headed to the other side at about 120 kilometers per second (75 miles per second), and will collide over 4 billion years.
Strong evidence says that at the galactic center (the rotating center) of the Milky Way there is a supermassive black hole.
The name Milky Way is derived from the Greek Milky Way or circle of milk due to its appearance like a strip of translucent milk in the sky.
Cherokee Legend has it that the Milky Way was formed when a dog stole a bag of cornstarch and while being chased, it spilled some.
The Milky Way, when viewed with the naked eye at night from any point on earth, appears to be made up of about 2,500 stars, the real number being between 100-400 billion stars.
The Milky Way always loses its stars through supernovae, (a process in which a large explosion occurs at the end of a star's life cycle takes away nearly all of its mass) and creates
Any image you've ever seen of the Milky Way from space is from another galaxy or by an artist.
Age of the universe is estimated to be 13.7 billion years.
The galaxy orbits a central axis.
Keper-186f, a planet at the outer edge of the Milky Way's habitable zone orbiting a dwarf, was discovered in 2015 and is 4,730 trillion kilometers (2,939 trillion miles) away.
Two-thirds of the galaxies in the known universe are spiral shaped and two-thirds of them are spiral, the Milky Way ticks both of these boxes making it one of the most popular galaxy designs.
The Milky Way is about 9.5 x 1017 km in diameter (. If our solar system were a quarter of the United States, the sun would be a microscopic speck of dust and the Milky Way would be as large as the United States of America.
In China, the Milky Way is known as the 'silver river'.
Our solar system orbits the galactic center at about 827,000 km / h (514,000 miles / hour).
Even today, there are plenty of our own galaxies to explore.
Traveling to the outer edge and seeing it in all its glory is nothing more than a very distant dream, none of us will ever witness, simply its size makes this happen.
However, just because this isn't an option, that doesn't mean we can't appreciate the enchanting visuals on the screen, the sheer speed of everything in the galaxy, and the plethora of information and
Maybe one day another earth, a more viable version of the Kepler-186f, will be discovered or another astonishing astronomical event will happen, who knows, it's the power of space
It engulfs everything, people, and concepts in the galaxy.
I think what Richard Feynman said about quantum mechanics could be tweaked a bit here and summed up it perfectly;
