Our solar system is just a speck in the Milky Way galaxy.
Our planet resides in the Orion-Cygnus Arm, a minor spiral arm located about 25,000 light-years from the galaxy’s center.
Experts estimate that the Milky Way contains 250 billion stars. But that's nothing — our closets neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, contains roughly one trillion stars.
And the Milky Way is just one of an estimated 2 trillion galaxies in the universe.
Our planet resides in the Orion-Cygnus Arm, a minor spiral arm located about 25,000 light-years from the galaxy’s center.
Experts estimate that the Milky Way contains 250 billion stars. But that's nothing — our closets neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, contains roughly one trillion stars.
And the Milky Way is just one of an estimated 2 trillion galaxies in the universe.
