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The sky

The solar system in the Milky Way

A light-year, about 9.5 trillion km, measures the distances to stars: the nearest is 4.2 light-years away, and the Sun lies 26,000 light-years from the center of a Milky Way 100,000 light-years across, going around it once in 230 million years.

About 35 minutes8 activities Paper packet