Question

The distance from Earth to the center of the Milky Way is about 2.58 × 104 light years and the distance from Earth to Neptune is 0.0004546 light year. About how many times farther is Earth from the center of the Milky Way than it is from Neptune?

Answer 1

The Galactic Center is approximately 8 kiloparsecs (26,000 ly) away from Earth in the direction of the constellations Sagittarius, Ophiuchus, and Scorpius, where the Milky Way appears brightest, visually close to the Butterfly Cluster (M6) or the star Shaula, south to the Pipe Nebula.Milky Way is about 2.58 × 104 light years and the distance from Earth to Neptune is0.0004546 light year. About how many times farther is Earth from the center of the Milky Way than it is from Neptune