About how many light years across is the Milky Way? Is it: w) 1,000 x) 10,000 y) 100,000 z) 1,000,000 Answer : ANSWER: Y -- 100,000...
A typical galaxy, such as our Milky Way galaxy, contains how many billion stars? Is it approximately: w) 10 billion x) 40 billion y) 200 billion z) 800 billion Answer : ANSWER: Y -- 200 BILLION...
“It would take light 100,000 years to travel from one end of our galaxy the Milky Way to the other.” Answer : A light-year is a measurement of distance in space, and is defined by how far a beam of light travels in one year - a distance of six trillion (6,000,000,000,000) miles. That's nothing compared ... at one end of our galaxy takes 20 times longer than all of recorded history to get to the other end....
The moon was closer to earth in March 1993 than it has been for a dozen years. This near distance was about w) 200,000 miles x) 216,000 miles y) 231,000 miles z) 240,000 miles Answer : ANSWER: X -- 216,000 MILES ...
Our nearest star neighbor in space, Alpha Centauri, is four light years from Earth. Why will it be difficult to visit? A. It is very bright and hot. B. We are not sure exactly where it is. C. There may be no planets near it. D. It is very far away
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