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 Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy are approximately 2.5 million light-years apart. This makes Andromeda the closest spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way. Both galaxies are part of the Local Group of galaxies.
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.
None, actually; reach down and touch the Earth, and you are touching part of the Milky Way. We are part of the Milky Way.
After the Milky Way galaxy, there are many other galaxies in the universe. Some of the closest galaxies to us are the Andromeda galaxy and the Triangulum galaxy. Beyond these, there are billions of other galaxies in the universe, each containing billions of stars.
one million 250 thousand light years away...says buzz lightyear
It would take approximately 100,000 years to travel from one end of the Milky Way to the other at the speed of light, which is about 186,282 miles per second. However, with current technology, it would take much longer to traverse the Milky Way.
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.
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.
Estimated at about 2.5 million light-years.
The Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy are approximately 2.5 million light-years apart. This makes Andromeda the closest spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way. Both galaxies are part of the Local Group of galaxies.
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.
I don't know how to quantify it in calories, but if you're asking how big the Milky Way is, it's approximately 100,000 light-years in diameters. Imagine what that would do for your waistline...I'd still say go for it though.
There are many but a couple famous are Wolf 359, G51-15, and 61 Cygni. Go to this website to figure out more info http://www.scienceinschool.org/2006/issue2/exoplanet/ Any star less than sixteen light years from the Milky Way Galaxy would be considered within the Milky Way Galaxy. Our sun is one of the 200 to 400 billion stars in our galaxy. If you were curious about stars less than 16 light years from our solar system, the above answer is good.