The Milky Way is approximately 100,000 light-years in diameter. This means that if you could travel at the speed of light, it would take you 100,000 years to cross from one side of the galaxy to the other.
lets say the Milky Way galaxy is one hundred thousand lightyears 105 in diameter (several sources use this figure).A light year is 9,5 * 1015 meters which makes about 3.2 * 1016 feetSo the Milky Way is about 3.2 * 1021 feet across3 200 000 000 000 000 000 000
Yes, the Milky Way is much larger than the sun. The Milky Way is a galaxy containing billions of stars, including our sun. The sun is just one of the many stars within the Milky Way galaxy.
The Milky Way galaxy itself contains approximately 100 to 400 billion stars. There is an estimated 100 to 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe.
We (the carbon units who inhabit the Earth) have named our galaxy the "Milky Way". If there's anybody else out there, we have no idea what they call our galaxy, or whether they care.
Andromeda and the Milky Way are approximately 2.5 million lightyears apart, and are constantly nearing each other. The Milky Way measures about 100,000 lightyears across, and Andromeda is roughly 220,000 lightyears.
Estimated at about 2.5 million light-years.
about 26000 lightyears
Milky Way.
The milky way galaxy is roughly a disc shape the is around 1000 lightyears thick on average and 100,000 lightyears in diameter. Our solar system sits roughly 26,500 light years from the centre.
lightyears
The Milky Way is approximately 100,000 light-years in diameter. This means that if you could travel at the speed of light, it would take you 100,000 years to cross from one side of the galaxy to the other.
Very, very small. The milky way is 100,000 lightyears in diameter and 1000 light years in thickness (approx.). A lightyear is about 10 trillion kilometres. Mercury is about 4900 kilometres in diameter. Pretty big difference.
The Milky Way is our galaxy, there are many, many millions of suns that make up the Milky Way
The milky way contains about a dozen black holes in the milky way.
The Canis Major Dwarf galaxy has already collided with the Milky Way, and is currently located inside our galaxy, approximately 42,000 lightyears away from our galactic center. It is located 25,00 light years from our solar system, which puts us closer to it rather than the center of our galaxy, which is 30,00 lightyears away. Hope this answered your question!
We are in the Milky Way galaxy.