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1. how old is the milky way? It is approximately 13.6 billion years old.

2. How many colors are in the milky way? our milky way is the color of the spring snow, just after dawn.

3. why was the milky way named the milky way? if you go to the country and see the band of stars. It looks like milk has been poured into the sky. So it was called the milky road but now it is called the milky way.

4. how many stars are in the milky way? approximitaley 300 billion stars

5. what shape is the milkyway? it is a huge whirlpool that rotates every 200 million years.

6. what is the milkyway? The Milky Way is an island of hundreds of billions of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity

FAST FACTS 1.Galileo had proof that the Milky Way contained stars when he used his telescope. 2.The bulge in the center of the Milky Way is believed to contain old stars. 3.The disk of the milky way is said to be made of young stars, dust, and gas. 4.The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy. 5.Looking up at the night sky, all the visible stars you see are part of the Milky Way.

On a clear night we can see the Milky Way in the sky, the fuzzy light that stretches from one horizon to the other. This light is made up of a number of stars.

The stars in the disk of the galaxy orbit around the center in a way similar to the way in which planets orbit around the Sun. The speed of each star depends on its distance from the center.

//Becklake,Sue,(2006),//100 facts on space,Miles Kelly,2002

geographic,national,Milky way geographic,2010(online)available [] 13 August 2012

Kerrod,Robin,(1984),The mysterious universe,Christensen press

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