What is the distance between our solar system and our Milkyway galaxy?
Answers
Answered by
1
Answer:
27,000 light-years
We know the Milky Way is a star-filled spiral galaxy in excess of 100,000 light-years wide, and we know our solar system drifts between two spiral arms at its outskirts, some 27,000 light-years from its center.
Answered by
5
about 27,000 light-years
The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy comprised of a bar-shaped core region surrounded by a flat disk of gas, dust and stars about 120,000 light-years wide. Our solar system is located about 27,000 light-years from the galactic center within one of the disk's four spiral arms.
Similar questions