How come our galaxy's named after a candy bar?

Milky Way candy bar was invented in 1923. The Milky Way in the sky has been called that for many thousands of years. I'll let you figure it out.

It wasn't

"...The Question

(Submitted February 05, 1997)

How did the Milky Way gets its name ?

The Answer

On a clear night, out in the country away from the city lights, you will see a bright, but diffuse, band through the sky. It will make a complete arc overhead (actually it appears as a great circle on the sky with the earth as the center).

Next time you are out in the country, look at this band of light and think about how it looks. This was named by the Greeks as: "Galaxies Kuklos" or The Milky Circle. The Romans changed the name to "Via Lactea" or The Milky Road or as we now call it "The Milky Way."

However, it was not until the the middle of the 18th century that people first came up with the idea that The Milky Way was actually a galaxy of stars. And it was not until the 19th and 20th centuries that scientists understood that The Milky Way is just one of many such galaxies in the universe.

If you want a good book to read on the history of astronomy, try "Coming of Age in the Milky Way" by Timothy Ferris, c1988, Anchor Books, ISBN 0-385-26326-0

Thank you for being interested.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Keohane

(for the Ask an Astrophysicist Team) ..."

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answer...

It's the other way around. The candy bar was named after our galaxy. Before all of this artificial light (when it was actually dark at night) people could see a dim band of light going all the way across the sky. It was named the Milky Way, and was later determined to be a side-on view of us looking through our galaxy. So, our galaxy was named Milky Way.

If you want to see the Milky Way you have to get way, way, way far away from the lights of towns and cities. It has to be really, truly dark; and the sky has to be clear. Then you will be able to see the band of very dim light going across the sky.

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I remember being told that it's called the Milky Way because it looks like milk coming out of the breast of Cassiopeia.

"Cassiopeia was the daughter of King Cepheus, whom married Lepus the Hare. She was caring and helped the poor. She also lived on a mountain and was hard to find. Cepheus and Cassiopeia were placed next to each other among the stars, the King by his Queen and only daughter the golden hare."

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Just done some more homework.

Look at this:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hera

Well because when we want Milky Way chocolate, we go out into the galaxy and mine for it.

Mars Bars are a little different. There is a semi-intelligent species from mars that we hire to mine the chocolate bars for us.

TROLLERT

The candy bar was named after our galaxy, hun.

By the same method that the 4th planet from the Sun is named after a different chocolate bar.

it's not. the candy bar was named after the galaxy.

well, and what about Mars... what about the Earth, named after soil? and what about Saturn, named after Saturday ?

and why is the Moon said to be made of green cheese when it is obviously made of white chocolate ?

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