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Provide a description of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Includein your description the location and stellar populations (newstars/ old stars) of the central bulge, disk, and halo. Alsoprovide details such as the Hubble classification, disk structure,location of star forming regions, and the best estimate of thenumber of spiral arms.

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Milky way is the galaxy in which our solar system falls From earth it appears as a band in night sky It has a disk like structure with a diameter of around 200000 light years It contains around 100400 billion stars and many planets also    See Answer
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