Milky way is also called as Akash Ganga. The band of light that we call the Milky Way is actually the plane of the disk of our galaxy. The Milky Way is the galaxy which is the home of our Solar System together with at least 200 billion other stars (more recent estimates have given numbers around 400 billion) and their planets, and thousands of clusters and nebulae (A diffuse mass of interstellar dust and gas). The total number of galaxies are estimated to be 40 billion. Names of some of the known galaxies are Andromeda I,II, III, Acquarius Dwarf, Bode?s Galaxy, Leo I, II etc.