Galaxies
Parts of the GalaxyThe GalaxyThe Central Bulge The Thin Disk Solar Neighbourhood Orbits Spiral Arms The Thick Disk The Halo The Dark Halo Star Populations The stars in the thin disk move round the central bulge in nearly circular orbits. All the material in the thin disk travels along more or less together. The disk rotates as a unit around the centre of the galaxy. At the Sun's distance from the centre, one rotation takes about 200 million years. Milky Way Graphic by Lucas Leslie, Yr 9 student, ESC, May 2000 |