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How big is the Milky Way in parsecs?

Updated: 10/6/2023
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According to newest observations, 258,000ly across, or 1.5167 quintillion miles. but 18 zeros are quintillion in the USA, remember that in some places like mine 18 zeros is a trillion.

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And yeah the halo extends to 1.9mln ly, 1.1169E+19 mi, or just a little bit bigger than 10 quintillion mi
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can you explain that answer?
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I can't explain more than this xd
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The Milky Way Galaxy has a diameter of about 30,660 parsecs

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Scientists measured it in light years. The Milky Way takes 100000 years to get from one side to the other at the speed of light.

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The whole Milky Way is about 100,000,000,000 billion miles.

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If you mean, what units, that would commonly be expressed either in parsecs, or in light-years.

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