Why is our galaxy named after a candy bar?

Question

Why is our galaxy named after a candy bar?

Answer 1

I always felt my favorite candy bar was sort of mocking or making fun of me behind my back!  

Answer 2

No, the candy bar is named after our galaxy.

Answer 3

Did you know the word galaxy comes from the Greek word for milky? That's because they thought the clouds of stars looked like milk spilling across the sky.

Answer 4

lol well considering the galaxy was mooost likely here longer than the candy bar, it's safe to say the candy bar is named after the galaxy

Answer 5

ha ha.. Its not actually named after the candy bar but more like the other way around.  The reason it is named " the milky way" is because when you look up at night you can see it as a milky band that stretches across the sky.  Hope this helps.

Answer 6

It's name after womens breast and milk

Answer 7

It is the other way around.

Answer 8

Some of the people believe that the name of our galaxy came from the Greeks who observed the sky and thought that it looked like the breast filled with milk and that milk was scattered in the whole sky or some baby angel has suckled and squeezed it very hard which caused the milk to spread all over the sky.

In the night when we look up to sky billion and millions of stars scattered around the sky gives it a milky look from the earth. When we look in the galactic centre you see a white fog like milk along the sky and the number of stars can not be differentiated with the naked eye or we can say it is impossible and hence looked as milk. With the invention of telescope was came to know that they are stars but before that it only appeared as milk because people were not confirm that they were stars. It has appeared as the cloud to our eyes. When Galileo observed it with his telescope he came to know that what appear milky was actually millions and billions of individual stars and he also came to know the fact that it was nearly the end of galaxy and there are many more galaxies in the universe.

Actually the word “galaxy” is derived from the Greek word. In Greek Milky Way is known as “via Lactea”. “Via” means way or we can say path or road and “Lactea” means milk.

Answer 9

Our galaxy was named The Milky Way centuries before the candy bar came into existence,

Answer 10

http://www.milkywaybar.com/facts/funfact...

Answer 11

Our galaxy is called Snickers????

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Answer 12

The candybar was named after the galaxy silly