where is earth in relation to the universe?

Answer 1

the Earth is in our solar system circling our Sun, which itself is located about 2/3 of the way out from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, between two of the galaxies spiral arms and is about 90 light years below the galactic plane. The Milky Way's diameter is about 100,000 light years(1ltyr=5,878,625,000,000miles). The Milky Way is in turn located within the Local Group of galaxies, a rather pathetic name for our local grouping of galaxies. The Local Group contains somewhere around 30-40 galaxies with the Milky Way gravitationally anchoring one end with the great galaxy of Andromeda (M31) anchoring the other end. The Andromeda galaxy is the most remote object visible with the unaided eye, lying at 2,300,000 light years. It contains something like 500,000,000,000 stars, compared with 200,000,000,000 stars in the Milky Way. Our local group of galaxies lies on the outskirts of the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies, a vast group of group of galaxies. Our Supercluster is centered on the Virgo cluster of galaxies, similar to our local group, but much larger containing thousands of galaxies and located something like 50,000,000 lightyears from us. Beyond that lies uncountable clusters and supercluster of galaxies of stars all on the largest scale forming giant bubble-like structures from one end of the visible universe to the other. By the way the visible universe stretches for about 13,000,000,000 light years in all directions. By some calculations this huge "observable" universe is but a very small part of what might really be out there. By careful calculations scientist at the university of Minnesota a few years back figured out that the portion of the universe just described above would be equal to the size of Rhode Island on a huge globe of the world. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

The earth is located about 2/3rds from the center of the Milky Way galaxy in one of the spiral arms. It's anybodies guess what the relationship of the Milky Way galaxy is in relation to the universe

Answer 3

Your question is not logical.

Positional relativity in languages allows such statements as "the book is on the table", "the ceiling is above the floor", "St Pancras is to the left of Kings Cross" etc. Such positional relationships require separate entities. I cannot say Kings Cross is to the left of London, because it is part of London. Language only allows for indicators of inclusion in such cases - eg Kings Cross is "in" London.

The Earth cannot have a positional relationship with something of which it is part, so all that language is capable of expressing logically is that the Earth is IN the Universe.

Answer 4

The Earth is in one of the outer spiral arms of one of the billions of galaxies in the Universe, which is generally belived to be infinite in all directions, so you could say the Earth is in the centre of the Universe!

Answer 5

There is no centre and no edge to the Universe, so no way of marking out an absolute position. You could say: the Earth is 'here' but you can't say where 'here' is.

Answer 6

At the edge of the milky way galaxy sort of in the middle, to the right, and moving very quickly from the centre

Answer 7

Earth is a speck in the flick of a cigarette ash. The cigarette being the universe.

Answer 8

the earth is very VERY close to the centre of the universe...afterall I'm standing on it and I AM THE CENTRE!!!

Answer 9

isn't this the question that got a certain Swiss patent clerk thinking rather too hard and ended us up with black holes and the atom bomb?

i think you mean "is it on the edge, middle, what?" I dunno but we are at the unfashionable end of our galaxy, or so it's said.

Answer 10

inside