about where is our solar system located within the milky way galaxy
The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. Its name milky is derived from its appearance as a dim glowing band arching across the night sky whose individual stars cannot be distinguished by the naked eye. On that scale with our Solar System in your hand, the Milky Way Galaxy, with its 200 – 400 billion stars, would span North America (see the illustration on the right). Galaxies come in many sizes. The Milky Way is big, but some galaxies, like our Andromeda Galaxy neighbor, are much larger. We - as in the Solar System, are located about 25,000 light years from the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy and about 25,000 light years from the edge. The Sun and the rest of the Solar System are close to the inner rim of the galaxy's Orion Arm, in the Local Fluff inside the Local Bubble, and in the Gould Belt. Many people are not clear about the difference between our Solar System, our Milky Way Galaxy, and the Universe. Let’s look at the basics. Our Solar System consists of our star, the Sun, and its orbiting planets (including Earth), along with numerous moons, asteroids, comet material, rocks, and dust. Our Sun is just one star among the hundreds of billions of stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. Did you ever wonder where in the galaxy we are? Our sun Sol is just one of more than a couple hundred billion stars that make up our home galaxy: the Milky Way. Our home lies within the disk of the Milky Way. It's the disk where most of the galaxy's gas and dust is located. As a result this is where most new stars are being born. Just as the Earth has an equator, so too does the galaxy and we are about 14 light years above what's called the equatorial symmetry plane. The Milky Way is estimated to contain 100–400 billion stars. There are likely at least 100 billion planets in the Milky Way. The Solar System is located within the disk, about 27,000 light-years from the Galactic Center, on the inner edge of one of the spiral-shaped concentrations of gas and dust called the Orion Arm. Figure 1. Polar view of the Milky Way Galaxy showing the location of the Solar System. As to our distance from the center of the galaxy, the best guess is that we are 26,000 to 28,000 light years from the center. The estimates vary due to uncertainty in the exact size of the galaxy and the time it takes the solar system to complete one orbit of our galaxy. We - as in the Solar System, are located about 25,000 light years from the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy and about 25,000 light years from the edge. <br /><br /> The Sun and the rest of the Solar System are close to the inner rim of the galaxy's Orion Arm, in the Local Fluff inside the Local Bubble, and in the Gould Belt. The center of the Galaxy lies in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius; it is here that the Milky Way is brightest. From Sagittarius, the hazy band of white light appears to pass around to the Galactic anticenter in Auriga. The band then continues the rest of the way around the sky, back to Sagittarius. Where is your sun located in the Milky Way galaxy? The Sun and the solar system is located somewhere at the end of the Orion arm (local arm) of the Galaxy. The Sun is about 30,000 light years from the center of the Galaxy. The… radius of the Galaxy is about 50,000 light years.
It is located within the disk, about 27,000 light-years from the Galactic Center, on the inner edge of one of the spiral-shaped concentrations of gas and dust called the Orion Arm.