The sun is one of over 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy | 2009 , [ "Monitoring Stellar Orbits Around the Massive Black Hole in the Galactic Center"] in German , Astroph |
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"Pattern speeds in the Milky Way".
; Thom, Christopher; Beers, Timothy C | It is about 25,000 light-years from the center of the galaxy, and it revolves around the galactic center once about every 250 million years |
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