Etiqueta: dark matter

  • The Milky Way and its Halo

    The Milky Way and its Halo

    The Milky Way is the galaxy in which we live. It is a spiral galaxy, and three main structures can be distinguished in it: the central bulge, the disk with spiral arms, and the halo, a sphere that completely surrounds the disk and the bulge. The disk has an approximate diameter of about 100,000 light-years…