Our galaxy is known as the Milky Way, it contains around 100 to 400 billion stars and its diameter is somewhere between 100,000–120,000 light-years. The Milky way is a barred spiral galaxy and it appears like a band because it has a disc shaped structure that can be viewed within the galaxy.
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Our galaxy is known as the Milky Way, it contains around 100 to 400 billion stars and its diameter is somewhere between 100,000–120,000 light-years. The Milky way is a barred spiral galaxy and it appears like a band because it has a disc shaped structure that can be viewed within the galaxy.
Nobody knows exactly the number of stars that Milky Way has but it may contain around 100 to 400 billion stars.
Milky way has approximately 300 million stars.