About 100,000 light-years in diameter. (If you want to convert that to kilometers, multiply by 9.5 x 1012.)
The ratio of the diameter (of the milky way) to what??
The stellar disk of the Milky Way galaxy is approximately 100,000 light years in diameter and about 10,000 light years in thickness.
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's diameter is about 100,000 light-years.
Your question is not clear. If you are asking how far away is the Milky Way, that's zero mm. Why? Because our solar system is in the Milky Way. We, you and I, are already living in the Milky Way. If you are asking how big is the Milky Way, it's roughly 100,000 light years in diameter. Our galaxy is like a big spiral; so the diameter is a good measure for its size. 1 light year is about 6 trillion miles = 6E12. So in miles our Milky Way is D = 6E12*10E4 = 60E16 miles in diameter. In case so-called scientific numbers are not your thing, that's 60 with sixteen zeros following it or 600,000,000,000,000,000 miles. If you plan on traveling that far, pack a lunch.
About 30,000 kiloparsecs.
ummm well if u can explore the milky way you can do it be computer
When compared to the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy,the diameter of our solar system is very nearly zero.
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has a diameter of about 100,000 light-years.
Milky Way is 258,000ly in diameter, according to new observations. And is 1.5trln solar masses. highest mass they got is 2.3trln. but we now say its probably around 1.5trln.
The Milky Way is about 100,000 light years in diameter and about 1000 light years thick.
It's difficult to define a galaxies size, as there is no real cut off point. From estimations, the Andromeda is about twice as large as the Milky Way.