We live in one, the Milky Way, a gigantic disk galaxy with sprawling spiral arms.
我们就生活在其中一个之中——银河系,它是一个巨大的圆盘星系,有着伸展的旋臂。
Crash Course 天文篇
Today you learned the Milky Way is a disk galaxy, a collection of dust, gas, and hundreds of billions of stars, with the Sun located about halfway out from the center.
A disc galaxy is a galaxy characterized by a disc, a flattened circular volume of stars. These galaxies may or may not include a central non-disc-like region (a galactic bulge).