How does our Solar System compare in size to the Milky Way?
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The Milky Way galaxy is about 80 million times bigger than our solar system.
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Very similar to Earth's size.
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The universe is big enough to contain over 100 billion galaxies, of which the Milky Way is one. It is also expanding. Since it is growing larger, it can't be infinite, since infinitely-sized things can't become larger than infinity.
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in relation to the other planets in our solar system... our moon is bigger than pluto but smaller than the other planets.\n\nin relation to other moons of other planets in our solar system... it is the 5th largest out of all the other planetary satellites.\n\nthe exact figures are at the link below:\n-(this other link might help as well)
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Chance.\n\nMany stars in the galaxy are part of binary systems.  As the gaseous nebula that forms a solar system collapses, the mass can distribute in many ways.  The Sun got the majority of the mass, and Jupiter carries much of the residual mass of the solar system (2.5x the mass of the other planets).  If more mass had gone to Jupiter, we might be in a binary solar system.  If the majority of the mass went to Jupiter, it would be the Sun, and vice versa.
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If we confine ourselves to only the surfaces of planets and minor bodies, the answer is virtually all of the surface area in our solar system has been mapped at least at some resolution. The Planetary Cartography Working Group has identified over 1.9 billion square kilometers of stable surfaces in the solar system, not including the atmospheric features of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, and of this total, all but a few percent have been mapped at resolutions of 10 - 100 meters or lower. Some surfaces such as the Moon and the Earth, have been mapped at substantially higher resolution.\n\nThis means that there are very few surprises left for us to 'see for the first time' in this solar system. Now comes the hard job of geophysically and minerologically assaying these surfaces to determine their chemical composition and how they got to be the way they are!
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Well, just our own galaxy is around 1 x 10^18 km across (or 1 x 10^21 m). Lets scale it down to the diameter of the Earth  at 12,750 km, or lets call it around 1 x 10^7 m. This means we would have to scale down the galaxy by a fact of 10^14.\n\nOn this scale, the Earth would have a diameter of around 1 x 10^-10 m. This is about one ten thousandth the diameter of a human hair. So a galaxy the size of the Earth would have and Earth 1/10000th the size of a hair.\n\nIt does not help our concepts of the scales to continue this to the Universe - its just very very big.
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the universe is one big fractal and that is most likely true, but don't think to much about it or your head might explode. Our solar system is a tiny tiny aberration on the pinhead of space. There are parralels everywhere... in nature and in fractals. Think of it as so much bigger than your senses could ever understand and you'll be fine... just don't go killing busloads of people.
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Solar system is 11 letters in size.\n\nTHE solar system or A solar system are different matters\n\nWe have these things in English called defintite articles. Words like "A" and "THE". Learn them. Use them.
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Rephrase your question sweety, the Milky Way & the Galaxy are the same, but there are other galaxies than ours. then... different than what? are you smoking something?
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The Milky Way appears to be a spiral galaxy, shaped like a disk with a somewhat thickened center and a number of long, trailing spiral arms. It is no doubt about 90,000 light-years in diameter, but .... only perhaps a few hundred light-years in thickness. So .... it might be just a couple of a few hundred light-years to travel across the Milky Way, if we want to be real quick :)
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Our solar system is located in the outer reaches of the Milky Way Galaxy, which is a spiral galaxy. The Milky Way Galaxy contains roughly 200 billion stars. Most of these stars are not visible from Earth. Almost everything that we can see in the sky belongs to the Milky Way Galaxy. \n\nThe sun is about 26,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, which is about 80,000 to 120,000 light-years across (and less than 7,000 light-years thick). We are located on on one of its spiral arms, out towards the edge, called the "Orion Arm". \n\nIt takes the sun (and our solar system) roughly 200-250 million years to orbit once around the Milky Way. In this orbit, we (and the rest of the Solar System) are traveling at a velocity of about 155 miles/sec (250 km/sec). \n\nThe centre of the Milky Way Galaxy lies in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.
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about the same size as the sun, it's average in many ways.\nthe diameter of the sun is about 860,000 miles.
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I know what you're thinking. Is the solar system a molecule in a vastly larger scaled uber-universe. The answer is no. The physical characteristics of planets ect are different than the physical characteristics of protons ect.
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Not sure how you want this question answered, but here goes:\n\nThe solar system consists of the Sun, the 10 planets, the asteroid belt, The Kuiper belt, and the Oort cloud. The Sun is a main sequence G2 star that contains 99.86% of the system's known mass. Its two largest orbiting bodies, Jupiter and Saturn, account for more than 90% of the remainder; the Oort Cloud might hold a substantial percentage, but as yet its existence is unconfirmed.\n\nIn broad terms, the charted regions of the solar system consist of the Sun and its planetary system: the eight bodies in relatively unique orbits commonly called planets or major planets and two belts of smaller objects, which can be called minor planets, planetoids, meteoroids, or planetesimals. Pluto, the ninth planet, is also considered a member of the outer belt, and its status is currently uncertain, particularly since the discovery of 2003 UB313 (see below). Most objects in orbit round the Sun all lie within the same shallow plane, called the ecliptic plane, and orbit in the same direction. Many are in turn orbited by moons, and the largest are encircled by planetary rings of dust and other particles.\n\nThe major planets are, in order, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Eight of the nine planets are named after or derived from gods and goddesses from Greco-Roman mythology.\n\nDistances within the solar system are measured most often in astronomical units, or AU. One AU is the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun, or 149 598 000 kilometres. Other units in common use include the gigametre (Gm, one million kilometres) and the terametre (Tm, one billion/milliard kilometres). Pluto is roughly 38 AU (5.9 Tm) from the Sun, while Jupiter lies at roughly 5.2 AU (778 Gm).\n\nUsing radiometric dating, scientists can estimate that the solar system is 4.6 billion years old. The oldest rocks on Earth are approximately 3.9 billion years old. Rocks this old are rare, as the Earth's surface is constantly being reshaped by erosion, vulcanism and plate tectonics. To estimate the age of the solar system scientists must use meteorites, which were formed during the early condensation of the solar nebula. The oldest meteorites (such as the Canyon Diablo meteorite) are found to have an age of 4.6 billion years, hence the solar system must be at least 4.6 billion years old.\n\nThe current theory of solar system formation is the nebular hypothesis, first proposed in 1755 by Immanuel Kant and independently formulated by Pierre-Simon Laplace. The nebular theory has been refined over many years and now has a great deal of evidence supporting it.\n\nTo briefly summarize, the nebular theory holds that the solar system was formed from the gravitational collapse of a gaseous cloud called the solar nebula. It had a diameter of 100 AU and was 2-3 times the mass of the Sun. Over time a disturbance (possibly a nearby supernova) squeezed the nebula, pushing matter inward until gravitational forces overcame the internal gas pressure and it began to collapse. As the nebula collapsed it began to spin faster to conserve angular momentum, and became warmer. As the competing forces associated with gravity, gas pressure, magnetic fields, and rotation acted on it the contracting nebula began to flatten into a spinning protoplanetary disk with a gradually contracting protostar at the center.\n\nGrains of dust (silicates and metals) and ice (hydrogen compounds) condensed from the gas, and began to accrete into larger and larger clumps, forming planetesimals. Inside the frost line, planetesimals were composed of rock and metal, because those are the only grains that can condense at those temperatures, and remained relatively small because they were only 0.6% the mass of the disk. The larger icy planetesimals beyond the frost line became massive enough to capture and hold onto helium and then hydrogen gases, which caused them to rapidly grow into jovian protoplanets.\n\nAft
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The sun is by far the largest object in our solar system. It contains 98% of the solar system's total mass.\n\nIt would take 109 earths to stretch across the sun, and it would take over one million earths to "fill up" the sun if it were hollow.\n\nIf you think of the sun as being the size of a basketball, then the earth would be about the size of the head of a pin.\n\nThe diameter of the Sun is 865,400 mi \nEarth equatorial diameter=7926 mi (12760 km)\nEarth polar diameter=7900 mi (12720 km)\n\nSun's surface area is approximately 12,000 times that of Earth.\n\nMore info:
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Universe is ONE and it is ever expanding.\n\nThere are many solar systems like ours in our Galaxy. There are billions of galaxies in the universe.\n\nIf you are interested to know more, check the site http://www.space.com site.