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Where abouts is our solar system positioned in the Universe?

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Where abouts is our solar system positioned in the Universe?

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The milky way galaxy is positioned about 1 billion light years from the edge of the universe. The universe is a sphere about 6 billion light years in radius. Our solar system is positioned near the outer edge of the milky way about 50,000 light years from the center.

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The second part of your question makes no sense, the universe doesn’t have any edges or boundaries, and every location in the universe appears to be in the centre of the universe, as seen from that location. So the universe has no start, middle, or end in any spacial sense. However, we are in a spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy, the Orion Arm actually. The nearest other galaxy is the Andromeda galaxy. It, us, and about 30 other galaxies form something called “The Local Group.” We are the second largest galaxy in the group by the way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Group The Local Group is part of the Virgo Supercluster, which contains at least 100 other groups and clusters like our Local Group. This link has a map showing the Local Group’s relation to other nearby groups of galaxies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgo_Super… There’s mil

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