Ahhh, but did you know that the Milky Way may in fact be twice as large in diameter as originally thought? Up to 200,000 light years, or if you prefer more familiar measurements, 2.0 x 10^18 km across?
Here's the article I read that in:
Astronomy.com link
Quote:
This finding has implications closer to home. Our Milky Way Galaxy could be much larger than its existing estimate of 100,000 light-years.
"Our galaxy is much more massive and brighter than NGC 300, so on this basis, our galaxy is also probably much larger than we previously thought � perhaps as much as 200,000 light-years across," explains Joss Bland-Hawthorn, chief author of the team's paper.
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