what is the milky way? Is it the name of our galaxy?
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==\nYes Milky Way is name of our galaxy.\n\nThere are different stories behind the term Milky Way.\n\nThe most authentic and widely accepted story is the fact that Greeks thought that the band of thickly populated stars in the night sky is the path from heavens made up of milk.\n\nSome other believed the band of most stars as the path of angles or gods which has become bright like milk. \n\nThere are also some other stories. One thing common to all them is that the band of stars is a path or way so the name become milky way.
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Consider this there are billions upon billions of stars in each galaxy we are just 1 galaxy and there are billions upon billions of galaxy's in the universe. So the question should start with the universe.
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Well dear....we aren't centrally placed in our milky way galaxy.....our solar system lies at a distance of about 30,000 light years from its centre....and we don't know the extremities of our universe yet hence our position with respect to the universe can't be measured..
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There is no boundary as such because there is "nothing" beyond the edge; but the Universe in not infinite.  Difficult to get your head around I know especially as "nothing" in this case does not mean nothing as you understand it now.  If I go on you might blow a fuse so I will stop there.\n\n[re: above - "The Milky Way" is the name of our Galaxy not our Solar system]
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Galaxies are clusters of stars and its planetary systems found in groups across the universe. List of Galaxies can be found in link below. \n\nThey are really far... measured in light years and the distance is increasing as per our expanding universe.
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That covers only one Galaxy - Milky Way\nThe whole universe is yet to be discovered .... by humans
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The universe is big enough to contain over 100 billion galaxies, of which the Milky Way is one. It is also expanding. Since it is growing larger, it can't be infinite, since infinitely-sized things can't become larger than infinity.
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YES. There are many stars in our galaxy with solar system formed.
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The universe contains approximately  200,000,000,000,000,000,000 (200 BILLION BILLION) stars in galaxies scattered throughout the universe.  Our solar system is located in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy.  The Milky Way galaxy contains approx. 200,000,000,000 stars.  \n\nThe universe is the largest of the three organizational structures in your question.  \n\nHope this helps!
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space is anything that is occupied by matter...\ndefined by dimensions...\nlike height, length and width...\n\nouter space...\nit is very vast..\njust imagine...\nyour country...\na part of the earth...\nwhich is a part of the solar system...\nwhich is a part of the milky way galaxy...\nand to think there are soooooooo many other galaxies....\nthat's outer space...\nan unimaginable dimension...
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Please make a distinction between the solar system and the Milky Way. The solar system consists of the sun, and the planets, asteroids, and comets orbiting the sun. There is one star in the solar system (the sun). The Milky Way is our galaxy and consists of billions of stars and presumably whatever planets, etc. orbit those other stars. The difference in size is quite considerable. If the solar system was only 2 yards across, the Mily Way would be 100,000 *miles* across.\n\nThe planets in our solar system are (in order from the sun) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Xena (unofficial name...may become Sedna). Most asteroids orbit between Mars and Jupiter, but not all of them.
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The nearest galaxies to the Milky Way are two Magellanic clouds, LMC and SMC, and they are UNFATHOMABLY far away.  LMC is 50 kpc away, or about 160,000 LY.  JUST ONE LY is SIX TRILLION MILES.  So 960,000,000,000,000,000 miles away.
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The Milky Way is moving at about 1,342,161 mph towards a galactic cluster known as Abell 3627\nhttp://answerway.com/expertans.php?category=243&expertname=Locii&catnam=Physics\n\nOur galaxy is NOT moving towards the center (or centre) of the universe. The universe has no center!\nhttp://sciastro.astronomy.net/sci.astro.9.FAQ\n\nGod should be spelled B-I-G B-A-N-G\nPBrax@netscape.com
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largest galaxy--\n\nThe Andromeda Galaxy (IPA: /ˌanˈdrɒmədə/, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224; older texts often called it the Andromeda Nebula) is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 2.5[2] million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda, which lies in the northern hemisphere of the sky.\n\nAndromeda was believed to be the largest galaxy of the Local Group of galaxies, which consists of the Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, and the Triangulum Galaxy, and about 30 other smaller galaxies. Due to recent findings based on improved measurements and data, scientists now believe that the Milky Way contains more dark matter and may be the most massive in the grouping.[5] However, recent observations by the Spitzer Space Telescope revealed that M31 contains one trillion (1012) stars, greatly exceeding the number of stars in our own galaxy.[6]\n\nThe Andromeda Galaxy is easily visible to the naked eye in a moderately dark sky, though such a sky is available only in smaller towns and isolated areas reasonably far from population centers and sources of light pollution. It appears quite small without a telescope because only the central part is bright enough to be visible, but the full angular diameter of the galaxy is seven times that of the full moon.
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All the objects in the Milky Way Galaxy orbit their common center of mass, called the Galactic Center. It includes the constellations Sagittarius, Scorpius, Ophiuchus and Scutum. For a great link that gives you a lot of specifics, including a map of the center check the sources below.
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The universe is old..the Milky-way galaxy here is young...we..we are a flash in the night ...life is everywhere WE are made up from the universe...Life else where? Most definitely..how self centered to believe other wise..very narrow minded and shallow indeed.
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This question  has been asked before, hasnt it? Sounds familiar.\n\nSpace is never ending, you can leave the Milky Way and you will enter another galaxy, depending on where ure exit point is.