GK
THE UNIVERSE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Earth Nebula
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The Hubble Galaxy
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The Milky Way
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The Snickers
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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 galaxy is known as Milkyway because it appears as a milky band of light in the sky. Galaxies come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Milkway is a large barred spiral galaxy.
Detailed explanation-3: -Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the … Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the way it looks from the ground: like a streak of spilt milk across the sky.