Our Place in the Universe: A Tiny Speck in the Cosmic Vastness

 Our Place in the Universe: A Tiny Speck in the Cosmic Vastness

It takes our Sun 250 million years to complete a single orbit around the Milky Way—a galaxy that spans 100,000 light-years across and 1,000 light-years thick. Our solar system sits about 26,000 light-years from the galactic center.

But here’s where things get mind-blowing: the Milky Way contains 200 billion stars and an estimated 3.2 trillion planets. And that’s just one galaxy. NASA estimates there are about 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe.

In the grand scale of the cosmos, our galaxy is just a drop in an endless ocean of possibilities.