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The Milky Way galaxy is approximately 100,000 light-years (30 kiloparsecs, 9x1017 km) in diameter, and is considered to be, on average, about 1,000 ly (0.3 kpc) thick .
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∙ 13y ago100,000 light years.
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How many sentient species are in a fictionalized version of the PGC 198197 galaxy?
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How many planets are in the star wars galaxy?
Since it's a fictional setting, it's really up to the author(s) how many planets there are, but assuming it's similar to the Milky Way, probably hundreds of billions.
How many seconds are in one light year?
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How many alien races are in the Deadman Wonderland Universe?
There are over 10,000 trillion alien races (100,000+ per galaxy; excluding humans) in the Deadman Wonderland Universe.
How many years was 1707 from 2014?
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How many light years across is Galaxy M32?
It's a dwarf galaxy; the diameter is about 6500 light-years (according to information in the Wikipedia article).
How many light years is the Milky Way across?
100,000 ly across but only about 1000 ly thick.
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).
Is the Andromeda Galaxy part of the solar system?
The Andromeda Galaxy is a separate galaxy, about 120,000 light years across, containing trillions of stars - possibly many with planets. Our Solar System is a single star with 8 planets and at best measures 2 light years.
How many light years from the milky galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy?
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How many AU's is the Milky Way galaxy across?
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How Many Light Years away is the Pinwheel galaxy?
23 million light-years.
How many light years can you see into our galaxy?
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How many light years far is the galaxy?
The Milky Way galaxy is around 100 thousand light-years across from end to end. (A light-year is the distance light travels in a year through the vacuum of space, equal to just under 10 trillion kilometres). It contains around 100 billion stars, many of which are thought to have solar systems of their own.
How many light years is the sun from the Galaxy center?
Somewhere around 26,000 light-years.
How many light years away is Andromeda galaxy?
2.5 million light-years approximately ;)
How many light years away is the Andromeda galaxy?
its about 2.5 million light years away
