What is the name of the spiral galaxy that contains Earth and the Sun?

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What is the name of the spiral galaxy that contains Earth and the Sun?

Explanation:
We live in a spiral galaxy named the Milky Way. Spiral galaxies are shaped with winding arms around a central bulge, and our Solar System—the Sun and Earth—sits in the disk of this galaxy, far from the center. So the name of the galaxy that contains us is the Milky Way. The other terms don’t name a galaxy: one is a general word for a galaxy, one is the Sun, which is a star, and the other is a star itself.

We live in a spiral galaxy named the Milky Way. Spiral galaxies are shaped with winding arms around a central bulge, and our Solar System—the Sun and Earth—sits in the disk of this galaxy, far from the center. So the name of the galaxy that contains us is the Milky Way. The other terms don’t name a galaxy: one is a general word for a galaxy, one is the Sun, which is a star, and the other is a star itself.

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