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THE MILKY WAY Our Home Galaxy GALAXIES 3 Main Types Spiral/Barre d Elliptical Irregular.

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2 THE MILKY WAY Our Home Galaxy

3 GALAXIES 3 Main Types Spiral/Barre d Elliptical Irregular

4 MILKY WAY Spiral Galaxy, type Sb Difficult to observe Looks like spilt milk in the sky, hence the name

5 STRUCTUR E Disk Galactic Bulge Halo

6 Galactic Bulge Consists of mostly older stars, Densely Populated May Contain A Black Hole At The Center

7 Galactic Disk Younger Stars Are Found Where Our Sun Is Located Spiral Arms Present

8 Galactic Halo Hard To Detect Little Gas And Dust Old Stars

9 GALACTIC NEIGHBOURS Small and Large Magellanic Clouds Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy

10 Andreomeda Galaxy

11 THE LOCAL GROUP Galaxy Cluster About 20 Galaxies 1 Mpc Across Mostly Irregular and Elliptical

12 Our Galaxy Also Interacts With Others

13 THE END

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