The Milky Way is a huge spiral galaxy containing hundreds of billions of stars, including our Sun, which is located around 25,000 light years from the galactic center. It would take 25,000 years to travel from our solar system to the center of the Milky Way even if moving at the speed of light. The Milky Way contains different types of planets like gas giants, super-Earths, and terrestrial planets composed primarily of rocks and metals like Earth, Venus, Mars and Mercury in our own solar system.
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The Milky Way Galaxy
1. THE MILKY WAY
GALAXY
TAN,CLARICE DANNIELLE D. VIII-RED LAUAN
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Did you know that our star, the Sun, is just one of hundreds of billions of stars swirling within an enormous cosmic
place called the Milky Way Galaxy?
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3. The Milky Way is a huge collection of stars, dust and gas. It’s called a
spiral galaxy because if you could view it from the top or bottom, it would
look like a spinning pinwheel.
The Sun is located on one of the spiral arms, about 25,000 light years
away from the center of the galaxy. Even if you could travel at the speed
of light (300,000 kilometers, or 186,000 miles, per second), it would
take you about 25,000 years to reach the middle of the Milky Way.
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4. TYPES OF PLANETS IN THE MILKY WAY
NEPTUNE-LIKE GAS-GIANT
SUPER-EARTH
TERRESTRIAL
5. TERRESTRIAL PLANETS
A terrestrial planet, telluric planet, or rocky planet, is
a planet that is composed primarily of silicate rocks or metals.
Within the Solar System, the terrestrial planets accepted by the
IAU are the inner planets closest to
the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
-The terms "terrestrial planet" and "telluric planet" are derived
from Latin words for Earth (Terra and Tellus), as these planets
are, in terms of structure, Earth-like. Terrestrial planets are
generally studied by geologists, astronomers, and geophysicists.
Terrestrial planet. (2023, October 7). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_planet