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1 The Milky Way Galaxy By Daphne Pickett Grade Level 1-2

2 WHERE DO WE LIVE?

3 We live… -in Oregon…

4 Which is in the United States of America…

5 Which is on the planet Earth…

6 Which is in the… MILKY WAY GALAXY http://www.nasaimages.org/luna

7 Not the candy bar, the galaxy in space! NO! YES!

8 Milky Way The Milky Way Galaxy has:Milky Way –A center –A central bulge –5 arms spiraling around the central bulge –We live on the Orion arm We can’t see through the center, so we don’t really know what is here http://www.discoverykids.ca/shows/zula/ http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~flack/images/milkyway.jpg

9 But what is the Milky Way Galaxy? Made up of stars and suns Planets, moons, and planetoids Comets and asteroids http://www.discoverykids.ca/shows/zula/ http://www.nss.org/PlanetsNASA.jpg http://www.solstation.com/stars/sol1.jpg http://wmatem.eis.uva.es/~marsan/discover/comets/comet-west.gif http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~astrolab/mirrors/apod/image/0206/idadactyl_galileo.jpg

10 We are not alone! The Milky Way is only one galaxy of many more galaxies –more galaxies than you could count even if you started today! Galaxies come in different shapes and sizes http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/screen/opo0428b.jpg http://www.discoverykids.ca/shows/zula/

11 Other Galaxies They can look more like our galaxy Or blurry Or really weird! http://www.kidsfirst.org/addenda/uploaded_images/ZP-cast-on-planet-791428.jpg http://www.hdwallpapers.com/photo/albums/Space_pictures/Spiral_Galaxy_M81.jpg http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Sciences/Astronomy/TheGalaxies/Galaxies/EllipticalGalaxies/m87.gif http://www.discoverykids.ca/shows/zula/ http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/AR2000/ugc10214.jpg Tadpole Galaxy

12 Milky Way Galaxy Our galaxy shape is a barred spiral galaxy http://www.kidsfirst.org/addenda/uploaded_images/ZP-cast-on-planet-791428.jpg http://www.geocities.com/attunement.geo/milky_way_barred_spiral_galaxy_spitzer.jpg Barred Spiral

13 Why is it called the Milky Way? The Milky Way galaxy got its name because we can see some parts of it at night, and it looks like a big band of milky white light. But there are other stories and thoughts about how our galaxy came about… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Deathvalleysky_nps_big.jpg

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