The Milky Way From NASA’s Science Mission Directorate Website - This image shows the MW as an edge on view of a normal disc galaxy ..
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The Needle Galaxy (NGC 4565) located in the constellation Coma Berenices.
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Shrink the NASA image down and it becomes a clone of the Needle Galaxy.
Our galaxy the Milky Way is typical spiral galaxy with hundreds of billions of stars, enough gas and dust to make billions more stars, and at least ten times as much dark matter as all the stars and gas put together, all held together by gravity. Like more than two thirds of the known galaxies the Milky Way is a spiral, at the center of which resides a supermassive black hole. NASA. 
