Our galaxy is called the Milky Way. It is a spiral galaxy that contains billions of stars, including our Sun, and is just one of many galaxies in the universe. The Milky Way appears as a faint, milky band of light stretching across the night sky, visible from Earth on clear, dark nights.
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Our galaxy is known as the Milky Way. It is a barred spiral galaxy that contains billions of stars, including our Sun, as well as planets, gas, dust, and dark matter. The Milky Way is part of a larger group of galaxies called the Local Group, which itself is part of the Virgo Supercluster. From Earth, the Milky Way appears as a milky band of light arching across the sky, a view that ancient civilizations interpreted in various cultural myths. Our solar system is located in one of the Milky Way’s spiral arms, about 26,000 light-years from the galactic center.