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MILKY WAY GALAXY
By: Lauren Reich
3/30/12
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Brightest Object in Sky
• Did you know that the Brightest object in the
Gamma-ray sky is the plane of our Milky way
Galaxy?
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DAVID THOMPSON SPEAKS
• “Its not easy to understand it when your in the
middle of it” says David Thompson of NASA
Goddard.
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MAP OF THE SKY!
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PARTICLES
• The Milky way Galaxy is filled with different
types of particles and energy sources such as
protons, electrons, electromagnetic radiation,
magnetic fields, and so fourth.
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THE NAME
• The name of the Milky way Galaxy derives
(comes from Native Americans) from it’s
appearance as a dim “milky” glowing band
arching across the night sky, in which the
unaided eye cannot distinguish individual
stars.
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DID YOU KNOW?
Did you know that the Milky way is a group of
stars held together by gravitational force? Did
you know that the Earth and the solar system
is part of the milky way galaxy?
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THE WEBSITES I USED
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wikipedia.org
NASA. Gov
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Planet Facts.org/milky way galaxy facts
FUN FACTS
• The milky way contains a bulge, a disk, and a
halo.
• The bulge in the middle of the milky way
galaxy contains old stars.
• The disk in the in the milky way is said to be
made of young stars dust and gas.
• Some dwarf galaxies orbit the milky way.
• The middle of the milky way can be located in
the direction of Sagittarius.
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