10000 light years
not 180,000
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.
43223 years
Light-years is a distance, not a time measurement. If you are asking how many light-years a person would have to travel to be outside of the Milky Way galaxy, the answer depends on the "direction" one wishes to use when exiting. The Milky Way, relatively speaking, is almost flat, with a thickness of only 9.26 quadrillion kilometers which is roughly 1000 light-years. While this sounds like a large distance, compare that to the width which is between 9,260 to 11,353 quadrillion kilometers or 100,000 to 120,000 light-years across. Therefore, if you went the thin way, it would be a maximum distance of 4.63 quadrillion kilometers or 500 light-years. If you went the thick way, the distance would be sufficiently larger.
our solar system is on a spiral on one of the milky ways many spirals. we are in the milky way galaxy which is 100 000 light years in diameter and 10 000 light years thick at the centre.
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.
Sure. Several of the space probes launched by the USA are not boundto the Earth or the Sun, and are going through the Milky Way. They'llcross the Milky Way and leave it completely in a few hundred thousandyears, if they don't bump into something first.
It takes a quarter of a billion years for the solar system to circle the milky way
The Andromeda Galaxy is at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years from Earth; or from the Milky Way.
not 180,000
100,000 ly across but only about 1000 ly thick.
We are IN the Milky Way Galaxy, and therefore not able to line up with anything!!
The solar system takes approximately 230 million years to orbit the center of the Milky Way.
Astronomers have calculated that it takes the Sun 226 million years to completely orbit around the center of the Milky Way.
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 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.
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.