Milky Way

The Milky Way is a banned spiral galaxy that is part of the Local Group of galaxies. Although the Milky Way is one of billions of galaxies in the visible universe, the Galaxy has special meaning to people as it is the home galaxy of the solar scheme. The plane of the Milky Way galaxy is noticeable from Earth as a group of glow in the night sky, and it is the look of this group of light which has enthused the name for our galaxy.

Some sources hold that, severely language, the term Milky Way should refer wholly to the observation of the band of light, while the full name Milky Way Galaxy, or instead the Galaxy should be used to describe our galaxy as an astral whole. It is indistinct how widespread the usage of this meeting is, however, and the term Milky Way is regularly used in either situation.