how many miles is the outside of the milky way?
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Firstly- 'miles' aren't the useful unit of measure here- they're far too small.\n\nWhile the galaxy is 100,000 light years in diameter- you don't need to travel 100,000 light years in order to leave it.  It's fairly flat- like a record er... uh.. .I mean CD.  Plus- we're about 2/3'rds of the way out on an arm.  So- you can leave in the plane of the galaxy and be pretty much outside of it in 20,000 light years.  Or- go out normal to (perpendicular to) the plane, and be out in about 5,000 light years.
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Roughly 5.87 trillion miles
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Right now the Voyager and Pioneer craft are still travelling away from the earth.  Voyager 1 is over 8 billion miles away from us, which is way out past Pluto.  It's even theorized that Voyager 1 has actaully entered true interstellar space.
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Troposphere                ground to 6 miles\nStratosphere                6 miles-50 miles\nIonosphere                50-300 miles\nExosphere                300-600 miles\nSpace Shuttle                150 miles\nOther manned spacecraft        90-300 miles\nEarth-observing satellites500 miles\nNavigational satellites        6,200-13,000 miles\nGeostationary satellites 22,000 miles\nMoon                        238,857 miles
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567.95 miles\ni looked it up on map quest
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On average, the distance is 384401 kilometres (238857 mi). There are of course variations in this distance due to the imperfect nature of the moon's orbit.
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Depends on your definition of the sky. The "sky" or portion of the atmosphere that deflect the blue wavelength of light is in a sphere around the earth about 350km high. So if you look North, South, East or West the sky never ends, but if you look straight up it ends and space begins at about 234 miles up.
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Despite the large amount of knowledge we now have about the Andromeda Galaxy, its distance, though among the best known intergalactic distances, is not really well-known. While it is well established that M31 is about 15-16 times further away than the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the absolute value of this measure is still uncertain, and in current sources, usually given between 2.4 and 2.9 million light-years - a consequence of the uncertainty in the LMC distance and thus the overall intergalactic distance scale. E.g., the semi-recent correction from data by ESA's astrometrical satellite Hipparcos has pushed this value up by more than 10 percent, from about 2.4-2.5 to the about 2.9 million light-years we use here.
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Roughly 240,000 miles
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Are you for real? Do you really think the clouds can be on the other side of the sun? The sun is 93 million miles away. Our atmosphere ends, for all practical purposes 150 or so miles up. After that is outer space. Clouds do not exist outside of the atmosphere. \nNow just maybe this is a trick question and you are meaning nebular clouds or clouds around other planets. If so then yes there are always clouds on the other side of the sun.
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Earth ranges from 7,926 miles to 7900 miles, depending on your location.\n\nThis is approximately 12,756km
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If the Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light years away and it's the only galaxy on Earth to be seen by the naked eye, it leaves us to wonder how far it really is.\n\nPersonally, I googled it. I couldn't find a thing relating to the blank nothingness further than the universe.\nI only looked a little bit, but there are very few educational guesses on the Internet.\n\nMaybe you should try. Googling that is. Maybe it's you who'll find the right words to search it in.  \nThe words stumped me so the was probably my problem.\n\nGood luck on finding the answer!\n-Marissa
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The Milky Way (a translation of the Latin Via Lactea, in turn derived from the Greek Γαλαξίας (Galaxias), sometimes referred to simply as "the Galaxy"), is a barred spiral galaxy of the Local Group. Although the Milky Way is but one of billions of galaxies in the universe, the Galaxy has special significance to humanity as it is the home of the Solar System. Democritus (450 BC–370 BC) was the first known person to claim that the Milky Way consists of distant stars.\n\nThe term "milky" originates from the hazy band of white light appearing across the celestial sphere visible from Earth, which is comprised of stars and other material lying within the galactic plane. The galaxy appears brightest in the direction of Sagittarius, towards the galactic center. Relative to the celestial equator, the Milky Way passes as far north as the constellation of Cassiopeia and as far south as the constellation of Crux, indicating the high inclination of Earth's equatorial plane and the plane of the ecliptic relative to the galactic plane.The fact that the Milky Way divides the night sky into two roughly equal hemispheres indicates that the solar system lies close to the galactic plane.\n\nThe main disk of the Milky Way Galaxy is about 80,000 to 100,000 light years in diameter, about 250-300 thousand light years in circumference, and outside the Galactic core, about 1,000 light years in thickness. It is composed of 200 to 400 billion stars [1]. As a guide to the relative physical scale of the Milky Way, if the galaxy were reduced to 130 km (80 mi) in diameter, the solar system would be a mere 2 mm (0.08 in) in width. The Galactic Halo extends out to 250,000 to 400,000 light years in diameter. As detailed in the Structure section below, new discoveries indicate that the disk extends much farther than previously thought.\n\nThe Milky Way's absolute magnitude, which cannot be measured directly, is assumed by astronomical convention to be −20.5, although other authors give an absolute magnitude of -21.3.\n\n\nThe age of the Galaxy is currently estimated to be about 13.6 billion (109) years, which is nearly as old as the Universe itself.[1]\n\nThis estimate is based upon research performed in 2004 by a team of astronomers: Luca Pasquini, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Sofia Randich, Daniele Galli, and Raffaele G. Gratton. The team used the UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph of the Very Large Telescope to measure, for the first time, the beryllium content of two stars in globular cluster NGC 6397. This allowed them to deduce the elapsed time between the rise of the first generation of stars in the entire Galaxy and the first generation of stars in the cluster, at 200 million to 300 million years. By including the estimated age of the stars in the globular cluster (13.4 ± 0.8 billion years), they estimated the age of the Galaxy at 13.6 ± 0.8 billion years.
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Once you leave the Milky Way you are not outside the universe. The Milky Way Galaxy is one of many known galaxies in the universe. There are probably billions we don't know about. "Goodness knows where" is inter-galactic space.\n\nInfinity means "forever". It is not necessarily a measurable distance or time. We're not sure if the whole universe is infinite. We can't even see most of what is out there. The estimated size of the observable universe is 7.4x10^26m (that's really, really, really, really big). Beyond that we're not sure yet.
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About nine miles.  See the map linked below.\n\nNeed the answer? Ask your friendly neighborhood librarian!
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The farthest thing you can reliably see is the Andromeda Galaxy, which is about 2.5 light years away.
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That's a tough answer for even astronomers to estimate accurately. I've studied astronmy for 30+ years and it seems that the most common answer is between 200 to 400 billion. What's kind of funny about that is it seems to be really rare to read an article that says there are about 300 billion stars in the Milky Way. I have no idea why that is- strange huh? It is more common to read the number 200 billion though. Remember nobody actually counts them unless a computer does it. It's just an estimate based on a number of different obsevations. There is a lot of our galaxy that can't be seen because of interstellar dust and gas. We can't even see the center of the Milky Way from here with our eyes. We can only look towards the center which is in the constellation of Sagittarius.\nWe can see the center and other obscurred areas using different wavelenths of light that the human eye can't see, but it's still hard to pin down a close number with accuracy.