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Number 8 is what?
*** How far is the sun from the center of the galaxy?
Answer: The Milky Way has a radius of about 15 kpc (kilo-parsecs), and the Sun is about 10 kpc from the center.
A "kpc" is a kilo-parsec. One parsec is 3.26 light years, so 10 kpc is about 32,600 light years.
Therefore, the distance from our Sun to the center of the Milky Way is about 2,061,612,202.7 AU (Astronomical Units), or better... it's about 1.91639 x 10^17 miles.
A "kpc" is a kilo-parsec. One parsec is 3.26 light years, so 10 kpc is about 32,600 light years.
Therefore, the distance from our Sun to the center of the Milky Way is about 2,061,612,202.7 AU (Astronomical Units), or better... it's about 1.91639 x 10^17 miles.
Relevant answers:
*** Approximately how far is the sun from the center of the galaxy?
Estimates vary, but the average value is somewhere around 8 kpc (about 26,000 light years).
*** Approximately how far is the sun from the center of the galaxy?
Estimates vary, but the average value is somewhere around 8 kpc (about 26,000 light years).
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