What size is the galaxy compared to the moon?

Answer 1

The Sun is about 332,946 times more massive than the Earth. It is about

1,300,000 times the volume of Earth.

As for the Sun and the Milky Way - The Milky way is composed of roughly 100 billion stars, so one can say that because the Sun is an average star, the Milky Way is, very roughly, 100 billion times more massive than the Sun.

Another viewpoint: The latest best estimates have the Milky Way Galaxy containing about 500 billion stars.

Using that number and a more accurate way of estimating the total mass of the stars gives: Total mass of our Galaxy is about 1.9 thousand billion times the

mass of the Sun.

Notice that's an estimate of the total mass of the Galaxy, including dust and gas.

Then again there's "dark matter" of course, but let's keep it simple.

Answer 2

The Sun is merely a star, whereas the Milky Way galaxy (of which the Sun is a part) consists of 200 to 400 billion stars! They are also widely spaced, so that the distance across the Milky Way galaxy is about 100,000 light years, which is 60 million times the width of the solar system (14 light-hours) and 800 billion times the width of the Sun (4 light-seconds).

Answer 3

1/986721.52 the size (1 being our solar system, and 986721.52 being the Galaxy)

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Compared the the Milky Way Galaxy, the entire solar system is like a single grain of sand - among all the beaches of the planet Earth!

Answer 4

Zero. Our sun is buried deep within the Milky Way Galaxy. It is one of the galaxy's 300 billion stars (±100 billion, or more, depending on the number of low mass stars).

We are roughly 26,000 light years from the center of the galactic core, however, and roughly 24,000 light years from the stars in the nearest part of the galactic rim.

Answer 5

The Moon has a diameter of about 3.6721 x 10-10 light years or 3,474 km (this takes a ray of light a fraction of a second).

The Milky Way Galaxy has a diameter of about 100,000 light years or 9.461 x 1017 km

So our Galaxy is a *LOT* bigger than the Moon

Answer 6

to answer this question it is very hard because our galaxy grows bigger and bigger and so does our universe i think its is like the size of a neutrino(an elementary particle from radioactive decay) to the size of the sun

Answer 7

The galaxy is significantly larger than the moon. The Milky Way galaxy, for example, is estimated to be about 100,000 light-years in diameter, whereas the moon is only about 3,474 kilometers in diameter.

Answer 8

The Milky way is 9×1017 km in diameter, the Earth is 1.2742x104 km. So the Milky way is 7.06x1013 times bigger than Earth in size.