Our+Galaxy

=The Milky Way= ====The Galaxy we live in is called the Milky Way. (A galaxy is a system of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction.) This is not a candy bar, it is actually the galaxy that includes the sun, earth, other planets in our solar system, and many other celestial objects and solar systems. The Milky Way actually only makes up a very small part of our universe, which contains many other galaxies. In the summer, you can see a faint light spanning from horizon to horizon. This is just the appearance of the Milky Way, the band of light is the combined light of millions of stars. You can also see this in the winter, but it is better seen in the summer. Our ancestors saw this as a band of milk or a roadway connecting to heaven. This probably explains why there is a candy bar called "Milky Way." In reality, the Milky Way is shaped like a large ring, with a huge bump in the middle, where most of the stars, gas, and dust are. ====