The Milky Way galaxy once provided nighttime illumination, inspiring ancient cultures. However, light pollution now obscures it from 80% of Americans and a third of the world’s population. A 2016 study produced the most accurate assessment of global light pollution, with countries like Singapore, Italy, and South Korea being heavily affected. Canada and Australia still […]
The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy containing 200-400 billion stars, including our solar system on the Orion Arm. It rotates around a central bar and is part of the Virgo Supercluster, which includes the Andromeda galaxy. The Milky Way is a cluster of stars bound together by gravity in a spiral shape. This […]
Our solar system is small compared to the Milky Way galaxy. The Sun contains 99.9% of the matter in our solar system and is very powerful. It is 4.6 billion years old and could fit about a million Earths inside it. Our solar system is located in the Milky Way galaxy. Our solar system contains […]
