The Milky Way Company Profile

Aggregated data from the web about The Milky Way

Company Name	The Milky Way
Website	https://en.wikipedia.org
Snippet	The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.
Mass	0.8–1.5×1012 M☉[6][7][8][9]
Type	Sb, Sbc, or SB(rs)bc[1][2] (barred spiral galaxy)
Country	argentina
Founded	2015.0
Website	themilkywaystudio.com
Diameter	150–200 kly (46–61 kpc)
Industry	architecture & planning
linkedin	linkedin.com/company/the-milky-way
size_range	1 - 10
display_url	themilkywaystudio.com
Headquarters	buenos aires, buenos aires f.d., argentina
Number of stars	100–400 billion [(1–4)×1011][5]
Angular momentum	≈1×1067 J s[10]
Bar pattern rotation period	100–120 Myr[15]
Spiral pattern rotation period	220–360 Myr[15]
Sun's Galactic rotation period	240 Myr[14]
Thickness of thin stellar disk	≈2 kly (0.6 kpc)[3][4]
Speed relative to CMB rest frame	552.2 ± 5.5 km/s[16]
Escape velocity at Sun's position	550 km/s[9]
Sun's distance to Galactic Center	26.4 ± 1.0 kly (8.09 ± 0.31 kpc)[11][12][13][additional citation(s) needed]
Dark matter density at Sun's position	0.0088+0.0024−0.0018 M☉pc−3 or 0.35+0.08−0.07 GeV cm−3[9]

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