brandeis9999
Jan 21, 2009, 04:48 PM
What would be further away? From the sun?A star near the center of the milkyway galaxy or a star on the far side of the milky way galaxy?
sarnian
Jan 21, 2009, 05:27 PM
What would be further away? from the sun?A star near the center of the milkyway galaxy or a star on the far side of the milky way galaxy?
Well, the sun is located in an arm of the galaxy, at roughly 2/3 radius of the galaxy disk from the center.
So from a star near the galaxy center to here it is 2/3 radius.
From a star at the far side of the galaxy it is 1 radius + 2/3 radius.
Have a look here : a nice picture of our galaxy with locations! (http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/milkyway.html)