What kind of galaxy is our solar system in?
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The Milky Way is the galaxy which is the home of our Solar System together with at least 200 billion other stars (more recent estimates have given numbers around 400 billion) and their planets, and thousands of clusters and nebulae.
As a galaxy, the Milky Way is actually a giant, as its mass is probably between 750 billion and one trillion solar masses, and its diameter is about 100,000 light years. Radio astronomial investigations of the distribution of hydrogen clouds have revealed that the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy.
Our solar system is thus situated within the outer regions of this galaxy, well within the disk and only about 20 light years "above" the equatorial symmetry plane (to the direction of the Galactic North Pole, see below), but about 28,000 light years from the Galactic Center.
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it's a spiral galaxy!
The Milky Way is the galaxy which is the home of our Solar System together with at least 200 billion other stars(more recent estimate have given numbers around 400 billion) and their planets, and thousands of Clusters and nebulae, including at least almost all objects of Messier's catalogue which are not galaxies on their own.
Milky Way Galaxy.
our solar system is in milky way galaxy.it is a spiral galaxy...
spiral
Solar system is in the Spiral Galaxy The Milky Way
The term Spiral refers to the alternating elliptical orbits that constitute the Milky way
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