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The milky way galaxy can be characterized as kind measurement in light-years how many stars?
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∙ 12y ago
The question is somewhat confusing, so I am not sure what you mean. The Milky Way is a galaxy; it has a diameter of about 100,000 light-years; it has between 100 and 400 billion stars (the exact number is not known).
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What type of measurement is used to measure the distance between the milky way galaxy and other galaxies?
lightyears
How long is the longest galaxy?
The milky way is about one hundred million lightyears and it's one of the largest
How far is center of milky way to earth in light years?
The milky way galaxy is roughly a disc shape the is around 1000 lightyears thick on average and 100,000 lightyears in diameter. Our solar system sits roughly 26,500 light years from the centre.
How long until the collision of the canis major dwarf galaxy and the milky way?
The Canis Major Dwarf galaxy has already collided with the Milky Way, and is currently located inside our galaxy, approximately 42,000 lightyears away from our galactic center. It is located 25,00 light years from our solar system, which puts us closer to it rather than the center of our galaxy, which is 30,00 lightyears away. Hope this answered your question!
What is the measurement between the milky way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy?
Any measurement you wish. If you want to know how far away the Andromeda Galaxy is, then see the related question.
The distance between the Milky way and Andromeda galaxies is about how many times their sizes?
Andromeda and the Milky Way are approximately 2.5 million lightyears apart, and are constantly nearing each other. The Milky Way measures about 100,000 lightyears across, and Andromeda is roughly 220,000 lightyears.
What is the distance across the Milky Way?
100,000 lightyears.
The Milky Way is one?
The Milky way is a galaxy. A spiral galaxy, to be more precise.The Milky way is a galaxy. A spiral galaxy, to be more precise.The Milky way is a galaxy. A spiral galaxy, to be more precise.The Milky way is a galaxy. A spiral galaxy, to be more precise.
What is the galaxy of milky way?
The Milky Way is a galaxy, is is our galaxy
Does the Milky Way Galaxy have an active galactic nucleus?
Our Milky Way has a supermassive black hole at its nucleus. It is an active radio source. It is probably not a Seyfert galaxy, which is a galaxy of a type characterized by a bright compact core that shows strong infrared emission, though.
What galaxy is called the Milky Way?
The Milky Way galaxy is.... called the Milky Way Galaxy
How many light years the galaxy to galaxy?
The nearest galaxy to our Milky Way is the Andromeda galaxy, which is about 2.5 million light years away (that is not including the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, small, irregular "satellite" galaxies of our own).
