is our sun located in the halo buldge or disk of the milkyway?

Answer 1

The sun is in the disk part of the galaxy. It's 26000 lightyears from the galactic center, in the Orion spur outside the Sagittarius spiral arm. We're about 6000 lightyears inside the Perseus spiral arm.

Answer 2

Actually, the Milky Way Galaxy is not a lenticular (disk) galaxy, but a spiral.

The Sun is located about 2/3 of the way down one of the spiral arms. The center of the galaxy is in the constellation Sagittarius, and the bright band of stars you can see running from North to South during the winter/spring is the remainder of the spiral arm.

Answer 3

We are about two thirds of the way out from the centre of the galaxy, in the disk between 2 of the dense spiral arms. We can't visually see the halo bulge because of the gas and dust clouds in the arms hiding the galactic centre.
Radio, X-ray, and other electromagnetic telescopes and sensors have mapped the galaxy's shape based on wavelengths that are not blocked by the gas and dust.

Answer 4

It is in the disk. We see the galaxy edge on from inside the disk, which is why it looks like a band of light across the sky.

Answer 5

the disk part we live in is only about 3,000 light years thick, while the central bulge is about 16,000 light years across. We're some 30,000 light years from the center of the galaxy, so we are way out in the boondocks in celestial terms.

Answer 6

Eggman - Your quoting that song from Monty Python's 'Meaning of Life'.