Class: VII(Int’l)

Subject: Physics
Chapter: Galaxies
 The Milky Way
A milky band across the sky
which is seen far away on a
clear night is called the Milky
Way.

It appears as a milky band of

light in the sky when it is seen
in a really dark area.
 The Shape of the Milky Way
 The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy.
 One arm of the spiral can be seen
only as a band across the sky.
 There are an estimated 250000000
stars in the Milky Way including the
sun.
 There are other galaxies in the besides our own.
 The other galaxies are different in shape like
elliptical galaxies or irregular galaxies
 What are the galaxy made off?

 The Milky Way is a huge collection

of Stellar dust, stars, gas and solar
system held together by gravity.
 The earth is travelling through a
cloud of stellar dust.
 The gravity holding a galaxy
together is strong because
galaxies have very large mass.
 If you travel at the speed of light, It would take you more
than 100000 years to cross from one side of the Milky Way
to the other.
 The total number of galaxies in the universe approximately
is 100, 000,000,000 galaxies.