It takes the Solar System about 240 million years to complete one orbit of the Galaxy.

It takes the Solar System about 240 million years to complete one orbit of the Galaxy.

Our Milky Way galaxy is a big place. Even at this blazing speed, it takes the sun approximately 225-250 million years to complete one journey around the galaxy’s center. This amount of time – the time it takes us to orbit the center of the galaxy – is sometimes called a cosmic year.

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