The Milky Way, our celestial home ... The disk has three regions: the nucleus at the center, the bulge around the nucleus ...

Other galaxies have bright centres, too—so what makes the Milky Way different? The brightness of the Milky Way and the nucleus of the rest of the galaxies is a characteristic of most galaxies. This ...

Here is a list of galaxies that are known in this universe other than your Milky Way galaxy. It is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth and the nearest major galaxy to the ...

Two massive, high-energy bubbles towering over the Milky Way were first detected in 2010. These colossal structures, extending 50,000 light-years, puzzled astronomers for over a decade ...

So our Milky Way is more dust and gas than stars ... so things like the electrons that go around the nucleus of an atom, but with different properties that interact very, very weakly indeed ...