SOLUTION: It is estimated that light takes 100,000 years (change to seconds) to travel the full distance across our galaxy, the Milky Way. If light travels 3 x 10 ^8 m in one 1 second:
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Question 991368: It is estimated that light takes 100,000 years (change to seconds) to travel the full distance across our galaxy, the Milky Way. If light travels 3 x 10 ^8 m in one 1 second:
How long is the Milky Way? Give your answer in standard form.
If we approximate the Milky Way to be a disc shape, calculate it's area in standard form.
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
1 year=365 days
1 day=24 hours
1 hour=60 minutes
1 minute=60 s
So,
1 year=
So,
=x
.
.
.
So the distance would be the diameter of the disc,
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