The Milky Way (Not the Candy Bar)

The Milky Way does not sit still, but is constantly rotating. The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, about 100,000 light-years across! Understanding the structure of the Milky Way has long been challenging. The solar system sits on the outer edges of one arm in a disk of material, and no one can see across the dense center to the other side. The Milky Way Galaxy is most significant to humans because it is home sweet home. But when it comes down to it, our galaxy is a typical barred spiral, much like billions of other galaxies in the universe. Let's take a look at the Milky Way.

(NASA Micro Observatory)

Redd, Nola Taylor. “Milky Way Galaxy: Facts About Our Galactic Home.” Space.com, Space.com, 14 Nov. 2017, www.space.com/19915-milky-way-galaxy.html.