Our earth and sun are part of an independent group of stars called the Milky Way Galaxy. The name supposedly stems from the fact that galaxy looks milky-unclear. The Greek named our galaxy Galaxias Kuklos, the milky circle, and the Roman later changed it into Via Lactea, the Milky Road, and later it became the Milky Way. The Greek even had a legend about the creation of our galaxy. Zeus, head of the gods, had a son by a human female. It was said that one day, wanting the baby beside the goddess Hera, his wife, while she was sleeping. But Hera woke up, surprised to find a baby who was not her own child at her breast, and pushed it away. Some of the milk spurted and become our galaxy.
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