Re: Help with Astronomical Notation needed

Michael Ash wrote:

Just as a sanity check, consider that the galaxy is something on the order of 100,000ly in diameter, so a 100,000 year rotation period would imply that the stars around here are going at something like 3x light speed.

At the edge of the Milky Way, anyway. We're about halfway from the center to the edge.

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