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How Thick Is The Milky Way Disk? [Solved]
about 1000 light years thick It is approximately 100,000 light years across and about 1000 light years thick. It has a central bulge that is about 10,000 light years in diameter. Our solar system is about a third of the way towards the edge of the Galaxy from the central bulge.
Galactic Structure of the Milky Way
This video illustrates the structural components of our
thick disk (of a spiral galaxy)
thick disk
The Milky Way’s ’thick disk’ is 2 billion years older than scientists thought
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