gi124, 4 months ago

@gutenberg_org The Milky Way is about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 km (about 100,000 light years or about 30 kpc) across. The Sun does not lie near the center of our Galaxy. It lies about 8 kpc from the center on what is known as the Orion Arm of the Milky Way.

https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/features/cosmic/milkyway_info.html