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How big is our galaxy?

Our Galaxy (the Milky Way) has a complex shape, in the first approximation it can be compared with a giant lentil (lens).

The vast majority of galactic matter (stars, interstellar gas, dust) occupies a lenticular volume about 100 thousand light-years across and about 12 thousand light-years thick in the central part. Another (significantly smaller) part of the galactic matter fills an almost spherical volume with a radius of about 50 thousand light years.

The centers of the lenticular and spherical components of the Galaxy coincide.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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