does anyone know?
2007-09-01 14:37:30 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
There are estimated about 200 billion stars in the milky way so if we take the sun to be a typical star then the sun makes up about 1/200000000000th of the mass of the milky way.
That is .0000000005%
2007-09-01 15:17:55 · answer #1 · answered by Roman Soldier 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since there are about 200 billion stars, and the mass of our galaxy is estimated at 5.8 x 10^11 solar masses, the sun is 1 / 5.8x10^11 the mass of the galaxy.
Or .000000000000017% (I might have missed a zero here).
2007-09-01 14:46:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not much. There are tens of billions of stars in the galaxy, and sun is not a particularly large star, so the percentage is probably of the order of
1 billionth of 1 percent.
2007-09-01 14:44:16 · answer #3 · answered by cattbarf 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Almost zero. The sun's not very large, and there are bilions of suns in the Galaxy. So, just considering the stars, not the other stuff like planets, dark matter, space debris like asteroids, etc, that's less than .0000001%
2007-09-01 15:22:08 · answer #4 · answered by gugliamo00 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Sun is roughly one trillionth the total mass of the Milky Way
Somewhat less than that if you mean the Dark Chocolate Milky Way
2007-09-01 14:46:25 · answer #5 · answered by Faesson 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
About a trillionth if you count dark matter. About 1/200,000,000,000 of the total mass of all the known stars and planets.
2007-09-01 16:00:34 · answer #6 · answered by Echo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As far as I know, no one has tried to figure that out yet. But, whatever the answer, it would be a decimal point followed by so many zeros before a number showed up as to be meaningless. As:
.000000000000000000000000000000000, etc.,0001
2007-09-01 14:44:17 · answer #7 · answered by Joan H 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
two thirds of the cube root of bu88er all.
2007-09-02 00:14:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Close to zero.
2007-09-04 05:45:53 · answer #9 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not really but it isn't much, I'd guess 2% max
2007-09-01 14:43:32 · answer #10 · answered by Rich W 2 · 0⤊ 8⤋