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What is the name of the galaxy we live in?


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Milky Way:

  1. The term "Milky Way," first appeared in Classical Antiquity to describe a band of light in the night sky.
  2. It has since been adopted as the name for our galaxy.
  3. The Milky Way is made up of a Galactic Center shaped like a bar and a Galactic Disk made up of spiral arms, all surrounded by a Halo made up of old stars and globular clusters.
  4. The Milky Way Galaxy's Galactic Disk is approximately 100,000 light-years in diameter and 1,000 light-years thick.

Hence, the galaxy we live in is milky way galaxy.


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