my indiasite and mypeopleonearth

my indiasite and mypeopleonearth

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

what is milky way?

the milky way is our home galaxy.a peculiar feature of this galaxy is a bright band of light that runs almost in a perfect circle through it.milky way belongs a cluster of some 24 galaxies salled the local group.
it is made up of millions of scintillating stars which seen from far away.seem to be placed in close proximity to one another.
the milky way is a spiral galaxy. the main body is a disc 100000 light years across with a globular nucleus of about 16000light years in diameter and far solar system is located.the milky way consists of hundres of billion of stars rotating about its center in a average period of some 230 million years.

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