Scientists drop absolutely stunning new view of the Milky Way galaxy

milky way galaxy  This is a journey into the scale of the galaxy we live in, the Milky Way, our home in the vast It is estimated to be about billion years old, nearly as old as the Universe Surrounded by several smaller satellite galaxies, the Milky Way is part of

The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest spiral neighbor, are headed toward each other In about five billion years, they may collide and merge  In 1610, Galileo made the first telescopic survey of the Milky Way and discovered that it is composed of a multitude of individual stars Today,

Milky Way Galaxy , large spiral system of about several hundred billion stars, one of which is the Sun  The early history of our home galaxy, the Milky Way,