{"id":30079,"date":"2015-05-03T09:39:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T09:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/?p=30079"},"modified":"2024-04-03T13:16:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:46:44","slug":"what-is-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/what-is-the-milky-way\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Milky Way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/What-is-the-Milky-Way.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30120\" src=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/What-is-the-Milky-Way-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"What is the Milky Way\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/What-is-the-Milky-Way-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/What-is-the-Milky-Way.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all know how infinitely vast the universe is\u2026with countless number of stars, galaxies upon galaxies and the different planets. If you sometimes ponder over this for long, you almost realize that you presence is almost non- existent in such huge vastness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well, one such example of nature\u2019s magnificent largeness is the Milky Way galaxy! Have you ever looked at the sky in the night and seen a dim strip of milky colour? If yes, then that\u2019s the Milky Way, also called as \u2018Akash Ganga\u2019. The solar system also belongs to this galaxy and is situated at the thin edge.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have observed through the telescope that the Milky Way contains innumerable stars, dust and gases and at its centre, is a black hole called Sagittarius A* whose mass is four million times that of the sun. I\u2019m sure you must be gasping at this fact but then nature and its creations never fail to surprise us, right? \ud83d\ude1b Also, Its milky colour is due to presence of clusters of stars which make it up. And when we\u2019re looking at the sky thinking we\u2019re seeing the stars, we are in fact looking at the centre of Milky Way. It has about 150 trillion stars and studies have revealed that it is spiral in shape.<\/p>\n<p>Now, you must be wondering that if the entire solar system is present in this galaxy, how exponentially large is this galaxy? The size of this galaxy is so large, that it cannot be measured in terms of kilometers only. Therefore, there is a separate unit for measuring large distances called the Light Year, which is the distance travelled by light in a year. So, the distance of milky way is one hundred thousand light years. The sun is located at a distance of 30 thousand light years from the centre of the galaxy and takes 225 million years to complete one revolution.<\/p>\n<p>It is just mind boggling to know facts related to nature and its wonders. Especially when it comes to celestial bodies, their magnum sizes, compositions etc, one can only sit back and wonder, that how great is the world! Isn\u2019t it? \u00a0\ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/certifications\">Click here for government certifications<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know how infinitely vast the universe is\u2026with countless number of stars, galaxies upon galaxies and the different planets. 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