Egypt’s astronomy research institute posts beautiful picture of Milky Way

CAIRO – 15 March 2022: The official page of the National Research Institute Of Astronomy & Geophysics (NRIAG) in Egypt published a picture Tuesday of the galactic arm, which is the spiral arm of the galaxy we live in.  

The page said that it consists of gases, dust and billions of stars, numbering between 100-400 billion stars, including the sun, and the age of the galaxy is estimated at about 13.6 billion years.

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy and includes our solar system near a small arm called (Orion) in a region located between the intersection of two arms called (Orion-Cygnus), located about 26,000 light-years from the center of the galaxy.

The National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG). NRIAG has very long history of astronomical and Geophysical observation since it was established on the year 1839 as a Royal observatory at Bollak, then moved to ABBASIA on the year1868, before it was moved to the current location at Helwan in 1903, making it the oldest research institute in North Africa and one of world heritage sites in Science and technology.