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How many miles long is the milkyway?

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Scientists at the University of Sydney in Australia have determined that the Milky Way, the galaxy in which Earth resides, is more than 12,000 light years, or 70,000,000,000,000,000+ miles, thick, not the 6,000 light years as previously thought.

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