The mysterious 'Great Attractor' pulling the Milky Way galaxy off course

milky way galaxy  But thanks to ongoing efforts, astronomers now know where our Sun resides in the galaxy Size of the Milky Way: For starters, the Milky Way is The Milky Way is the Galaxy in which we live It is a spiral shaped galaxy that contains several hundred billion stars, including our Sun

The Milky Way Galaxy is a vast pinwheel of stars and gas turning within an enormous cloud of invisible matter Many generations of stars have formed and  Find Milky Way Galaxy stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection

As a galaxy, the Milky Way is actually a giant, as its mass is probably between 750 billion and one trillion solar masses, and its diameter is Interestingly, the Milky Way has not suffered a merger with a similar-mass galaxy in its entire 13 billion-year history These mergers are