The Milky Way is our home galaxy. The Milky Way is spirally shaped having length of about 1,00,000 light-years, and width of 10,000 light-years. It contains billions of stars which include our sun. You can get a glimpse of the band of stars in the Milky Way from a dark place at...
the image of the Milky Way that we see up in the night sky in unpolluted areas (especially remote, rural locations) is on its side; it is due to the angle of viewing that the galaxy appears to be a thin