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 * || Milky Way." (LWA/The Image Bank/Getty Images.) //Kids InfoBits Presents: Astronomy//. Gale, 2008. Reproduced in Kids InfoBits. Detroit: Gale, 2012. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/KidsInfoBits ||  ||
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Milky Way." (LWA/The Image Bank/Getty Images.) //Kids InfoBits Presents: Astronomy//. Gale, 2008. Reproduced in Kids InfoBits. Detroit: Gale, 2012. []

"Milky Way." (LWA/The Image Bank/Getty Images.) //Kids InfoBits Presents: Astronomy//. Gale, 2008. Reproduced in Kids InfoBits. Detroit: Gale, 2012. []

"Milky Way." //Kids InfoBits Presents: Astronomy//. Gale, 2008. Reproduced in Kids InfoBits. Detroit: Gale, 2012. []

"Milky Way." (LWA/The Image Bank/Getty Images.) //Kids InfoBits Presents: Astronomy//. Gale, 2008. Reproduced in Kids InfoBits. Detroit: Gale, 2012. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/KidsInfoBits

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The Milky Way has three main components: a disk of youngish stars, a bar of older stars, and a dark halo. The disk is shaped like, well, a disk. It has a diameter of approximately 100,000 light-years, yet it is not much more than 1,000 light years thick (a light-year is the distance light travels in one year and is equivalent to nearly six trillion miles). Levine's colleague, Leo Blitz, compares the galaxy's shap The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy. Shaped like a Frisbee, it has a central bulge of older stars, from which emanate several arms of newer stars. At the bulge's center lies a black hole, a collapsed star so massive that nothing, not even light, escapes from it. The entire spiral rotates, with our solar system making one complete orbit around the center about every 220 million years. On the galaxy's northern side, stars and gas bulge more than 16,000 light-years above the galactic disc. (One light-year equals about 5.9 trillion miles.) In the southern sky, it dips about 3,200 light-years. The Milky Way is a collection of more than 200 billion stars, including our sun. No one knows exactly how the Milky Way,, formed, says astronomer Jason Kendall. But according to Kendall, here's what the evidence suggests: "More than 10 billion years ago, the Milky Way was a gargantuan The reason we can not see the milky way galaxy is because in the miidle all the stars are claps together so if they wre spread out then we would be able to see it but that isn't the truth and thats why we can not see the milky way galaxy.