What is the Milky Way?
Q: What is the Milky Way?
A: The Milky Way is our home galaxy.
Q: How many stars are there in the Milky Way?
A: The Milky Way contains over 200 billion stars.
Q: What is the diameter of the Milky Way?
A: The Milky Way has a diameter of about 170,000 or 200,000 light years.
Q: What is the structure of the Milky Way?
A: The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy with three main parts: a disk, a bulge at the core, and an outer halo all around it.
Q: What is the Local Group?
A: The Local Group is a group of three large galaxies and over 50 smaller galaxies that the Milky Way belongs to.
Q: What is the closest neighbor to the Milky Way?
A: The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, which is about 25,000 light years away from the Earth, is the closest neighbor to the Milky Way.
Q: When will the Andromeda Galaxy collide with the Milky Way?
A: The Andromeda Galaxy will collide with the Milky Way Galaxy in about 3.75 billion years.
