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