The Milky Way is an elliptical galaxy.
Why it is true
The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, about 100,000 light-years in diameter. It has a central core crossed by a bar of stars and four main arms where new stars form. The Sun is in one of the arms.
Source: ESA
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