How much of a backwater is earth located in, in galactical terms?

Question

Yeah, distance to center would be relevant. Average star density in our neighborhood compared to other regions, etc.

Sorry if this was ambiguous.

Answer 1

We are about 3/4ths of the way toward the end of a minor spiral "arm" of our galaxy.

Answer 2

As others have stated, we are pretty much out near the fringe.

It's a good thing somewhat. The closer in you are the more radiation you are exposed to and the more likely some star in your local neighbohood will have a traumatic event.

Out where we are, we really only need to worry about the star Beatleguse. It's a red giant in the Orion constellation. If that baby novas in our direction, we're pretty much history. But we will be long dead by that point.

~X~

Answer 3

We're pretty deeply into the 'burbs'. About 2/3 of the way from the Galactic center to the edge of the spiral.

Doug

Answer 4

I'm not sure I fully understand the question, if you're reffering to our solar system then we're pretty far out there, we're located on one of the tails of the spiral galaxy so we're probobly out in the sticks when it comes to that but speaking of the entire galixy? there's no way to know as we don't know how far the galixy expands and therefore have no basis for comparison. We could be in the center, near the edge, somewhere in the middle, we just don't know.

Answer 5

If the galaxy was Los Angeles we'd be a birdhouse in Granada Hills.