It is estimated that the Milky Way is about 100,000 light years wide. In other words, it takes light about 100,000 earth years to travel from one edge right across to the far edge.
The Andromeda Galaxy is at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years from Earth; or from the Milky Way.
The sun is one of the many stars in the milky way - our galaxy. Sol, our Suns name is about 25 light years from the center of the Milky Way.
the milky way is a galaxy, there are billions of stars in the milky way galaxy
one million 250 thousand light years away...says buzz lightyear
Since we're within the "milky-way" you could say one second should do it. To go all the way across it would take light 100,000 years (multiply by 365.25 x 24 x 60 x 60 to get seconds).
Yes. The Milky Way is a galaxy, and it is huge, with a diameter of about 100,000 light-years. That means it will take light 100,000 years to go from one end to the other. Such vastness staggers the imagination. And yet, other galaxies - many of them quite similar to the Milky Way - are known to be at a distance of millions or even billions of light-years from us.
The Andromeda Galaxy is at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years from Earth; or from the Milky Way.
We are in the Milky Way galaxy.
If the milky way galaxy is 100,000 light years across and if the universe is 13 billion years old, you would have 130,000 milky way galaxies, end on end to the edge of the universe.
100,000 ly across but only about 1000 ly thick.
Same as Earth. The distance from Earth to Mars is insignificant in comparison to the distance scales in the Milky Way. - About 20,000 light-years.
The Milky Way is estimated to be about 2,000 light years thick, but about 100,000 light years long/far... Which i guess you can tell, thats a lot.
The sun is one of the many stars in the milky way - our galaxy. Sol, our Suns name is about 25 light years from the center of the Milky Way.
Estimated at about 2.5 million light-years.
10000 light years
Yes it is. All the stars that we can see are in the Milky Way galaxy. Stars in other galaxies are too far away from us to be able to see them properly. That is even true of many stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.
A supernova is a star which has effectively exploded. There have been many in our galaxy which we call the Milky Way. There have also been supernovas in other galaxies too.