I understand our galaxy is disk shaped with a diameter of approx. 70k light years and a maximum thickness of approx. 10k light years. Is that correct?
2007-07-14 01:20:28 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
We are a very large galaxy!
750 billion and one trillion solar masses, and its diameter is about 100,000 light years.
2007-07-14 01:29:38 · answer #1 · answered by mikedh311 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our Galaxy = Milky Way
Milky Way Galaxy Shape = Disk Shape with a central core and multiple, spiral, arms reaching out.
Milky Way Size = 1.5 Light Years thick; 1500 light years wide.
Source of Information =
ASTRONOMY, Ian Ridpath, DK Publishing, NY NY.
2007-07-14 08:20:30 · answer #2 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gee, Tom. Again with the question befitting a mental midget.
Have you read up on the subject??
Maybe more like 100 k light-years across. But what's a few lightyears one way or the other?
Is it just a slow day, or are you really just discovering that there is a galaxy called the Milky Way.
Research and READ. Don't ask questions that only serve to confirm what is commonly known.
2007-07-14 03:04:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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We have never seen what the Milky Way looks like from the outside. Any picture that you see of "the Milk Way" is an artist's rendition based on the limited amount of information we do have about the structure of the galaxy and photographs of galaxies like Andromeda.
2016-04-02 04:04:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The galaxy our Sun lives in is called the Milky Way or the Galaxy
It is a barred spiral galaxy of a Local Group of galaxies within the Virgo Supercluster.
The Milky Way is about 50,000 light-years in radius
The main disk of the Milky Way Galaxy is about 80,000 to 100,000 light-years in diameter, about 250,000 to 300,000 light-years in circumference, and outside the Galactic core, about 2,300–2,600 light-years in thickness.
2007-07-14 01:30:38 · answer #5 · answered by amoxi7 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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What is the shape and size of our galaxy?
I understand our galaxy is disk shaped with a diameter of approx. 70k light years and a maximum thickness of approx. 10k light years. Is that correct?
2015-08-24 14:48:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anthia 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the shape is a barred spiral galaxy and is 100,000 -150,000 light years across
2007-07-14 01:41:10 · answer #7 · answered by comethunter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nearer a 100K and it's a spiral. And to quote Douglas Adams we are at the unfashionable end of one of the spiral arms.
2007-07-14 01:23:11 · answer #8 · answered by Del Piero 10 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, that is correct.
Oh, wait a minute.
What's one foot out of that perimeter?
Hmmm?
2007-07-14 01:23:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds about right.
2007-07-14 01:22:44 · answer #10 · answered by Clown Knows 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋