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Our Sun, and our solar system, are a tiny speck in the Milky Way galaxy. It would be like comparing one grain of sand to Miami Beach, or one cell in your skin to your entire body.

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(Actually more like a speck of dust to the human body)

Our solar system takes a little under a light year to get through and the Galaxy is around 9 million light years to get across 1/4.

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