GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Milky Way is thought to be a barred spiral galaxy. Approximately 60% of all galaxies are thought to be spiral galaxies, making spiral galaxies the home of the majority of the stars in the Universe.

Detailed explanation-3: -Our Solar System resides roughly 26, 000 light-years away from the Galactic Center. Our Milky Way galaxy has spiral arms, where stars are born from clouds of molecular gas and shine for billions of years. The exact number of arms, and their shapes, is difficult to determine from our location within the Milky Way.

Detailed explanation-4: -Stars in the solar neighborhood include representatives of the two major stellar populations of the galaxy, disk and halo stars. Including the stars of the distant globular clusters, halo stars are among the galaxy’s oldest, thought to be mostly 10 billion years and older.