The Ladder of Scale · structure
Milky Way
Galaxy · 105 thousand ly
- Coordinates
- origin — we are inside it
- RA (deg)
- 0
- Dec (deg)
- 0
- Within
- Milky Way dark halo
- Population
- 100–400 billion stars
- Size (ly)
- 105000
- Kind
- Galaxy
Notes
Our galaxy, seen edge-on from inside — the reason its shape took until the 1920s to settle. A supermassive black hole of 4.3 million solar masses sits at the centre.
Open on the The Ladder of Scale shelf — the interactive card, the filters, and everything alongside it.