SCIENCE
PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Rectangular
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Spiral
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Irregular
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Elliptic
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Detailed explanation-1: -It is a typical spiral type of galaxy.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Milky Way is a huge collection of stars, dust and gas. It’s called a spiral galaxy because if you could view it from the top or bottom, it would look like a spinning pinwheel. The Sun is located on one of the spiral arms, about 25, 000 light-years away from the center of the galaxy.
Detailed explanation-3: -The shape of our milky way galaxy is spiral.
Detailed explanation-4: -Scientists have been able to segment galaxies into 4 main types: spiral, elliptical, peculiar, and irregular.
Detailed explanation-5: -Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is disk-shaped with spiral arms. It has an elliptical bulge in the centre and a spherical halo that is denser closer to the Galaxy centre. It is about 100, 000 light years across and our solar system is about two thirds of the way out from the centre.