The Milky Way galaxy will never reach the "Great Atttractor".
Oh, let's paint a happy little scenario here. The timeline for reaching the Great Attractor is something we need to let flow and evolve naturally, just like the gentle shadows on a vibrant landscape. Embrace the journey and trust that each brushstroke brings us closer to our destination.
Hi! The milky way is "our" galaxy. The sun is inside it. All the stars you see are in our galaxy. The nearest stars are at a distance that takes light about 4 years to reach us from them.
It's very easy to reach one galaxy ... the "Milky Way" ... because we are in it.No human can reach any other galaxy, because the trip would last longer thanhumans live.
The Milky Way galaxy is about 100,000 light-years in diameter. Traveling at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to reach the edge. However, with current spacecraft technology, which travels at approximately 17,500 miles per hour, it would take over 20 billion years to traverse the galaxy. Thus, reaching the ends of the Milky Way is far beyond human capabilities with existing technology.
No. Reach up and pinch your nose; that's part of the Milky Way you are pinching! We - each and every one of us here on Planet Earth - are as much a part of the Milky Way as one of your hairs is part of YOU. We're part of the Earth; the Earth is part of our solar system. This solar system, and every individual star you can see in the sky, are part of the Milky Way.
Less than one. * The Milky Way (our galaxy) has a diameter of about 100,000 light-years. * According to the Wikipedia, the Canis Major galaxy is at a distance of 25,000 light-years from our Solar System. However, its status as a galaxy is disputed (in other words, it may not be a galaxy). * On the other hand, the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy is at a distance of about 70,000 light-years from the Solar System - still less than the diameter of our galaxy. Note that the distances given are from our Solar System; NOT from the center of our Milky Way.
The Andromeda Galaxy is currently about 2.537 million light-years away from the Milky Way. It is on a collision course with our galaxy and is expected to collide in approximately 4.5 billion years. This event will lead to the eventual merging of the two galaxies, forming a new galaxy often referred to as "Milkomeda" or "Milkdromeda."
Pretty close, you're living in one right now - the Milky way galaxy. The Andromeda Galaxy is closest to the Milky Way and is about 2.5 light years away. That means it takes the light from it 2.5 years to reach us. The distance in miles is about: 14,696,249,535,466. Some galaxies are billions of light years away from us which is a humbling amount of distance to conceive.
Depends on what you define as "big" or "small"... The nearest star from our Solar System, Toliman (Alpha Centauri), is 4 light-years away. This is already an incredible distance, by our standards; each light-year has almost 10 million million kilometers. It would take our current spacecraft thousands of years to reach there. The diameter of our galaxy (the Milky Way), however, is about 100,000 light-years - about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 km., 10 to the power 18.
About one. Our galaxy is surrounded by several dwarf galaxies, that are extremely close to us.About one. Our galaxy is surrounded by several dwarf galaxies, that are extremely close to us.About one. Our galaxy is surrounded by several dwarf galaxies, that are extremely close to us.About one. Our galaxy is surrounded by several dwarf galaxies, that are extremely close to us.
The moon Pandora, the setting of the movie "Avatar", is in the Galaxy of the Imaginary. It doesn't really exist; it's just a movie. However, any planet reachable by humans in the next few millennia will be in the Milky Way galaxy. Other stars are very distant, and will take decades or centuries to reach. Other galaxies are unimaginably further away. Travel there will require a number of fundamental revolutions in our understanding of physics. There is however, Pandora a moon of Saturn and 55 Pandora an asteroid, both reside within our Solar System, within the Milky Way Galaxy.
The hottest place in the galaxy is believed to be in the vicinity of the black hole Sagittarius A*, located at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Temperatures can reach several million degrees Celsius due to intense gravitational forces and high-energy processes happening near the black hole.