The Milky Way is often considered to be an intermediately wound, barred spiral, whichwould be type ________ according to Hubble.
A) $\text { E4 }$
B)Sa
C)SBb
D)SBV
E) $\mathrm { B } 2 \mathrm {~S}$

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The Milky Way is classified as a barred spiral galaxy, which in Hubble's classification scheme is denoted as "SB". The "b" in "SBb" indicates that it is an intermediately wound barred spiral, fitting the description given.

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