Galaxy
The barred spiral galaxy containing the solar system, home to at least 100 billion stars.
| Type | Galaxy |
|---|---|
| Galaxy type | Spiral |
| Distance from Earth | 0 ly |
| Diameter | 950,000,000,000,000,000 km |
| Mass | 2.90 × 10^42 kg |
| Redshift | 0 |
| Hemisphere | Both |
| Discovered | Prehistoric |
At 950,000,000,000,000,000 km across, Milky Way is 74,556,584,523,623 times the diameter of Earth.
Its mass is 1,458,019,105,078 times the mass of the Sun.
The light reaching us from Milky Way tonight left it around 0 years ago.
Of the 12 galaxys these pages cover, only 0 lie closer to us.
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