Meet our galactic neighbours
- POSTED ON: 23 Apr, 2020
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- POSTED BY: Madhumitha Srinivasan
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A galaxy is a huge system comprising gas, dust, and billions of stars and their solar systems. They are held together by gravity.
Earth is a part of the solar system, which is a part of the Milky Way galaxy. When you look up at the sky at night, everything you can spot with your naked eye is a part of the Milky Way. The only object you can see outside of the Milky Way is the Andromeda Galaxy, our closest galactic neighbour.
Scientists believe there are as many as 100 billion galaxies in the universe, and each of them a different shape and composition.
Here is a list of some of the most best known galaxies and their distance from our galactic home.
Source: Groschenwiki/ Creative CommonsCC BY-SA 4.0
Now zoom in on this challenge – Can you spot the eight galaxies in the grid?