The Milky Way alone contains up to 400 billion stars, according to current calculations. As is well known, these beautiful barred spiral galaxies include our own solar system.
We may visualise the bewildering collection of thousands and thousands of celestial bodies as an earthly snowdrift, which helps us understand how enormous our galaxy home actually is. Our sun, which typically appears to us as a massive celestial body, would not even be the size of a microscopic virus in a region with a diameter of 6 miles and an average height of little over half a mile.
The Milky Way still conceals countless secrets that have yet to be discovered, which is virtually in the nature of things given these mind-boggling vastness that are tough for our human mind to comprehend. We add a significant new piece to the galactic picture with each new discovery we make within our own galaxy.
Experts, however, frequently encounter perplexing structures and conditions throughout their research that cannot be explained at first glance. We'll now reveal which discoveries in the Milky Way have not just astonished eminent scientists.