Kardelen ÇELİKBİLEK Hamit Özdağ Imam Hatip Secondary School / Araklı-Trabzon

Milky Way

The Milky Way or Kehkeşan is the celestial island in which the Solar System is located. It is a barred spiral-type celestial island that is part of the Local Cluster. It is just one of the billions of celestial islands in the observable Universe. On Friday, October 23, 2015, German astronomers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum published a map of the Milky Way galaxy with a resolution of 46 billion pixels "855.000X54.000".

Etymology

The origin of the name galaxy is the word galaxias (Modern Greek: γαλαξίας) meaning "milky, milky, milky" used in Ancient Greek to denote our galaxy, or the term kyklos galactikos (Modern Greek: κύκλος γαλακτίκος) meaning "milk circle". This term, and hence the term "Milky Way" used in Western culture for the Milky Way, originates from a myth in ancient Greek mythology: One night, Zeus puts his son Heracles, which he made from a mortal woman, on Hera's chest, who fell asleep without realizing it. Baby Heracles will drink the milk that flows from Hera's breasts and will thus be immortal. But when Hera realizes that she wakes up at night and is breastfeeding a baby she does not know, she throws it away, and the milk that comes out of her empty breast gushes into the night sky. According to the story, the generation called "Süt Yolu" (Samanyolu in Turkish), which we see glistening in the night sky with a dim light, was formed in this way.

The Milky Way or "milk circle" was just one of the 11 "circles" the Greeks described in the sky, the others being the Zodiac, Meridian, Horizon, Ecuador, Cancer and Capricorn cycles, the Arctic and Antarctic circles, and two celestial circles crossing both poles.