• Question: what is the diameter of the galaxy we are in

    Asked by Kieran to Andrea, Charlie 🚀, Col Op, Kirsty, Vinita on 16 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Andrea Boyd

      Andrea Boyd answered on 16 Jun 2016:

      Ridiculously big.

      100,000 – 180,000 light years (not a perfect circle) which is

      smallest distance end of end of our galaxy = 587,863,000,000,000,000 miles
      biggest distance end of end of our galaxy = 1,058,153,000,000,000,000 miles

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