AST201H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Chief Operating Officer, Active Galactic Nucleus, Milky Way

The diameter of our disk-shaped galaxy, the Milky Way, is about 1.0 &times105 light-years (ly). The distance to the Andromeda galaxy , which is the spiral galaxy nearest to the Milky Way, is about 2.0 million ly. If a scale model represents the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies as dinner plates 25 cm in diameter, determine the distance between the centers of the two plates.

The diameter of our disk-shaped galaxy, the Milky Way, is about 1.0 × 10⁵ light-years (ly). The distance to the Andromeda galaxy (Fig. PI.57), which is the spiral galaxy nearest to the Milky Way, is about 2.0 million ly. If a scale model represents the Milky Way and Andromeda

galaxies as dinner plates 25 cm in diameter, determine the distance between the centers of the two plates.

The diameter of our disk-shaped galaxy, the Milky way is about  light-years (ly). The distance to the Andromeda galaxy (Fig P1.57), which is the spiral galaxy nearest to the milky way, is just about 2.0 million ly. If a scale model represents the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies as dinner plates 25 cm in diameter, determine the distance between the centers of the two plates.