Hidden Treasures: Six Places to See the Milky Way Joel Carillet April 21 / 2017 Here’s a statistic for you: “The stellar disk of the Milky Way galaxy is approximately 100,000 light-years (30 kiloparsecs, 9×1017 km) in diameter, and is considered to be, on average, about 1,000 ly (0.3 kpc) thick.” I got that from Wikipedia. Tags travel night sky Milky Way Read more about Hidden Treasures: Six Places to See the Milky WayLog in to post comments