Elvira Zubrick: Interesting Facts about Milky Way Galaxy

Elvira Zubrick is explaining some Interesting Facts about the Milky Way Galaxy. When we Just think about where we are in the entire universe, our planet is just one of the planet among millions of planets. Even our solar system is one of many in the Milky Way Galaxy, and our own galaxy is one of billions in the universe. It’s really very hard to imagine how big our universe actually is. Elvira Zubrick believes despite of so much advancement in our technology we know very little about our galaxy. Elvira Zubrick also believes there is so much to explore in Space.

1: Milky Way Is Only One of Hundreds of Billions of Galaxies in the Universe

Hanford and its nearby areas were so saturated with radioactive waste and strange toxic sludges that the site became the largest nuclear cleanup site in the entire western hemisphere. The cleanup process has gone on for decades, caused health problems to dozens of workers, and cost billions of dollars, but the treatment plant that’s meant to deal with the sludge is yet to materialize.

2: There Are Almost 4,000 Exoplanets in Our Galaxy

Planets that are beyond our solar system are called exoplanets and thousands have been discovered by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope over the past several years. These exoplanets can be of any size, with some being rocky & some having icy surfaces. The Kepler Space Telescope worked to find these planets from 2009 until 2018.

3: There Are Hundreds of Billions of Stars in Our Galaxy

It’s very hard to know exactly how many stars there are in our galaxy as Milky Way galaxy contains many stars. In addition, the centre of our galaxy has a galactic bulge that’s filled with dust, stars, and gas, as well as a supermassive black hole which makes that area extremely thick with materials that telescopes are unable to see through it.

4: The Andromeda Galaxy Will Eventually Collide With The Milky Way

The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will eventually collide into each other, but it won’t happen for a very long time. While it was previously thought that it would happen 3.75 billion years from now, newly conducted research from the ESA’s Gaia mission estimates the collision will take place in 4.5 billion years.

5: Structure and Size of the Milky Way Galaxy

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy with a centre bulge that is surrounded by four arms that are wrapped around it. Our galaxy, as well as our solar system which we are a part of is always rotating. Our solar system travels around 515,000 miles/hour on average, it would approximately take 230 million years to travel around the Milky Way Galaxy.