A study into the world of the zodiac In our Time frame

The milkyway

Before we get down to the nitty gritty of what lies within the Milky Way we must in fact have an understanding of the galaxy its self.

The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System.This solar system contains Earth that we live on now. The name "milky" is given from its appearance as a dim glowing band and/or circular shape that arches across the night sky which its individual stars cannot be clearly seen or distinguished by the naked eye.The term "Milky Way" is a translation of the Latin via lactea, from the Greek γαλαξίας κύκλος (galaxías kýklos, "milky circle").From Earth, the Milky Way appears as a circular band because its disk-shaped structure is viewed at its insides.

Galileo Galilei first resolved the mesh band of light(made up of May stars) into individual stars with his telescope in 1610. Until the early 1920s, it was thought by most astronomers that the Milky Way contained all the stars in the Universe. However,  in 1920 the Great Debate took place between astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis, we see that observations by Edwin Hubble show us that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies—now estimated to number as many as 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe.

The Milky Way is a complex and quite bright I might add, spiral galaxy that has a diameter thought of to be about 100,000–120,000 light-years but many controversial studies show that it may be 150,000–180,000 light-years.

The Milky Way Galaxy  is estimated to contain 100–400 billion stars, however this number may peak to as high as one trillion.There are likely at least 100 billion planets in the Milky Way. Each of these holding their own solar system.

The Solar System is located within the disk, about 27,000 light-years from the Galactic Center, on the inner edge of one of the spiral-shaped concentrations of gas and dust called the Orion Arm. The stars in the inner ≈10,000 light-years form a bulge and one or more bars that radiate from the bulge. The very center is marked by an intense radio source, named Sagittarius A*, which is likely to be a supermassive black hole.

Stars and gases at a wide range of distances from the Galactic Center orbit at approximately 220 kilometers per second. The constant rotation speed contradicts the laws of Keplerian dynamics and suggests that much of the mass of the Milky Way does not emit or absorb electromagnetic radiation. This mass has been termed "dark matter".The rotational period is about 240 million years at the position of the Sun.

The Milky Way as a whole is moving at a velocity of approximately 600 km per second with respect to extragalactic frames of reference. The oldest stars in the Milky Way are nearly as old as the Universe itself and thus likely formed shortly after the Dark Ages of the Big Bang.

The Milky Way has several satellite galaxies and is part of the Local Group of galaxies, which is a component of the Virgo Supercluster, which is itself a component of the Laniakea Supercluster.

Our solar system is big and our galaxy is always part of an even bigger picture yet to be do discovered by us. If anyone is willing I shall be engaging in discussion in the commentary section feel free to cut in at any given moment but only scientific points of view please. (Theories of such are except able)

Thank you.
Miss Masked.

(Parts of this document have been taken from Wikipedia and have been simplified to identify with the reader)