2. Appearance
Size and composition
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Structure and
Formation
Age
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3. The Milky Way has a relatively low surface brightness. Its
visibility can be greatly reduced by background light such
as light pollution or stray light from the moon.
The light in this band originates from un-resolved stars
and other material that lie within the Galactic plane
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4. The Milky Way contains at least 100 billion
stars and may have up to 400 billion stars.
The stellar disk of the Milky Way Galaxy is
approximately 100,000 ly (31 kpc) in diameter.
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6. It consists of a bar-
shaped core region
surrounded by a disk
of gas, dust and stars.
The gas, dust and stars
are organized in
roughly logarithmic
spiral arm structures.
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7. a star in the galactic halo was estimated to
be about 13.2 billion years old.
About 0.5 billion years less than the age of
the universe. As the oldest known object in
the Milky Way at that time
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8. This galaxy conations millions of stars
The milky way galaxy is the most galaxy
studied by space scientific specialist
because it contain our plant.
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9. Web sites
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way
http://www.space.com/
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