Our solar system lives in a major spiral arm of the Milky Way, a new study suggests. This view looking toward the center of the galaxy was taken at the ESO 3.6-meter telescope in the Chilean ...

Our solar system lives in a major spiral arm of the Milky Way, a new study suggests. This view looking toward the center of the galaxy was taken at the ESO 3.6-meter telescope in the Chilean ...

Milky Way Arm Containing Our Solar System May Be Bigger Than We Thought. Complete the form below to listen to the audio version of this article.

How Big Is The Milky Way? Arm Containing Our Solar System Is Much Bigger Than We Thought. By Susmita Baral Published 10/04/16 AT 11:56 AM EDT.

Our Solar System's Milky Way neighborhood just went upscale. We reside between two major spiral arms of our home galaxy, in a structure called the Local Arm. New research indicates that the Local ...

Our solar system is located roughly three-quarters of the way to the Milky Way’s edge, says Reid. It takes the sun about 250 million years to make one rotation around the galaxy.

The find, announced Wednesday, can help explain how solar systems across the Milky Way galaxy came to be. This one is 100 light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. A light-year is 5.8 ...

Every 230 million years, the sun—and the solar system it carries with it—makes one orbit around the Milky Way's center. Though we can't feel it, the sun traces its orbit at an average velocity ...

Our home in the universe It’s tricky to map an entire galaxy when you live in one of its arms. But astronomers have made the clearest map yet of the Milky Way – and it turns out that the arm ...

Our galaxy is a member of the Local Group — a small collection of galaxies, of which the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are the two largest. About 50 smaller galaxies surround them.