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The Milky Way spiral galaxy is about 100,000 light years in diameter, and about 3,000 light years thick at its center, and about 1,000 light years thick near its outer edge.
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Is the Milky Way about 200 light years in diameter?
No, closer to 80,000 light years or more.
How many AU's is the Milky Way galaxy across?
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.
How many years does it take to travel through MILKY WAY?
10000 light years
How many light years will it take to get out of the milky way galaxy?
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.
The Milky Way galaxy is much smaller than?
IC 1101. It's 5000.000 (5 million) light-years across and our milky way is only 100.000 (100 thousand) light-years across.
What is the width of the Milky Way in kilometers?
The Milky Way is 100-120 light years across. This translates as 586,971,360,000,000 to 704,365,632,000,000 kilometres !
How long is the Milky Way in light years?
The Milky Way's diameter is about 100,000 light-years.
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).
What is the length and width of the Orion Cygnus Arm in light years?
The Orion-Cygnus Arm of the Milky Way galaxy is about 3,500 light years across and approximately 10,000 light years in length.
How far across the milky way?
The Milky Way is about 100,000 light years in diameter and about 1000 light years thick.
What is the distance across the milky way galaxy?
Our Milky Way galaxy is 100,000 light years across.
What is the estimated size of the Milky Way?
Milky Way galaxy range from 100,000 light years up to 120,000 light years.
Is the Milky Way 5.8 light-years from the farthest galaxies?
No, the farthest galaxies from the Milky way are nearly 100000000000000 light years away.
How long would for light years to cross the milky way?
The Milky Way is about 100,000 light years in diameter; it would take light about 100,000 years to cover the whole distance.
How big is the Milky Way?
The stellar disk of the Milky Way galaxy is approximately 100,000 light years in diameter and about 10,000 light years in thickness.
What is the distance across the milky way disk?
The Milky Way is about 100,000 light years across.
Where is the earth in the Milky Way?
It is The third planet from the sun and is 26,000 Light years from the center of the Milky Way.
