GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -The Milky Way gets its name from a Greek myth about the goddess Hera who sprayed milk across the sky. In other parts of the world, our galaxy goes by other names. In China it’s called the “Silver River, ‘’ and in the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa, it’s called the “Backbone of Night.”

Detailed explanation-2: -Our Sun is one of at least 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, a spiral galaxy about 100, 000 light-years across.

Detailed explanation-3: -Our planetary system is called “the solar system” because we use the word “solar” to describe things related to our star, after the Latin word for Sun, “solis.” Our planetary system is located in an outer spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy.

Detailed explanation-4: -Milky Way Galaxy, large spiral system consisting of several hundred billion stars, one of which is the Sun. It takes its name from the Milky Way, the irregular luminous band of stars and gas clouds that stretches across the sky as seen from Earth.