Animation of the Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our solar system. The Sun is some 26, 500 light years from the centre of the galaxy. The full diameter of the galaxy is thought to be between 100, 000 and 180, 000 light years. The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy with a central bulge surrounded by a bluer disc of younger stars and starbirth regions (red). It is thought to contain as many as 400 billion stars. | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Garlick, Mark |
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Länge: | 26 Sekunden |
Seitenverhältnis: | 16:9 |
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