Space/Science — HabitableZone

Space/Science » in reply to re: 100,000 ly- not 75,000

Depends on what defines a Galaxy...

...if we're talking isophotal lines then the usual radius for the Milky Way when doing visible light galactic surveys is ~ 26.3 kiloparsecs (85.8 kilolight-years). If you're talking objects that are obviously gravitationally bound to the Milky-Way then there are galactic odds and ends out to ~ 300,000 light-years, including the Magellanic clouds (168 kly and 225 kly.)

So there you go. It's an arbitary line in the stars that the real galaxy doesn't really respect.

Adam

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