Milky Way. Amazing Facts of our own Galaxy














Below are some amazingly interesting facts about our Galaxy Milky Way :


§  Our sun is a part of Milky Way galaxy, hence it can be said that it is our Own galaxy
§  There are billions of Galaxies in the universe and our Milky Way is just one of them
§  There are about 100 to 400 billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy.
§  The largest neighbor of our Milky Way galaxy is Andromeda galaxy.
§  Milky Way is among the group of Spiral Galaxies.
§  Our Milky Way galaxy rotates in clockwise direction.
§  The central part of the Galaxy is known as bulge which usually has the oldest stars in it.
§  Some other dwarf galaxies rotate around our Milky Way.
§  It is estimated that our Milky Way Galaxy is 13 billion years Old.