What type of galaxy is the Milky Way?

The term 'Milky Way', once used simply to refer to the misty arch of stars in the night sky, was later adopted as the name for our Galaxy as a whole In the

Astronomers figured out that we live in a spiral galaxy by measuring the motions of gas throughout the disk—the large, pancake-shaped region

milky way galaxy The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy that includes planet Earth, the sun, and our

dticket railway Our Milky Way is a spiral galaxy Just a portion of it, seen in radio waves, shows the telltale bubbles, nuggets, and streams caused by the births and deaths of