GK
THE UNIVERSE
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
The Milky Way is about ____ light years in diameter.
|
|
three
|
|
|
four
|
|
|
9.5 trillion
|
|
|
100, 000
|
|
|
300, 000
|
Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Milky Way is about 1, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 km (about 100, 000 light years or about 30 kpc) across.
Detailed explanation-2: -E)The Milky Way Galaxy is about 100, 000 light-years in diameter.
Detailed explanation-3: -This map has suggested that the center of the Milky Way, and the black hole which sits there, is located 25, 800 light-years from Earth.
Detailed explanation-4: -The simulations indicate that over the next 100 million years or so, our galaxy will “stop ringing:” the north-south asymmetry will disappear and the vertical motions of stars in the solar neighborhood will revert back to their equilibrium orbits-unless we get hit again.
There is 1 question to complete.