• Question: how many milkyways are there in our solar system

    Asked by anon-245770 to David on 11 Mar 2020.
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      David Sobral answered on 11 Mar 2020:


      Zero, unless you refer to chocolate 🙂

      The Milky Way is our own Galaxy. It contains something like 100 billion stars, so you could think it contains something like 100 billion solar systems. It is *huge* compared to the solar system, almost 100 thousand times larger!

      Trying to get Milky Ways into the solar system would be the same as trying to place our entire planet inside the football stadium of your favourite football team 🙂 [good luck with that!]

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