The milky way galaxy diagram. A face on view of star families sibling stars born from a single cloud of gas in our milky way galaxy within 3000 light years of our sun center of image. Looking at the suns direction of travel arrow on fizixfans motion of earth sun around the milky way diagram does this mean then that the solar system is orbiting the galaxy in a clockwise direction. A galaxy is a gravitationally bound system of stars stellar remnants interstellar gas dust and dark matter. Interstellar travel is the term used for crewed or uncrewed travel between stars or planetary systemsinterstellar travel will be much more difficult than interplanetary spaceflight.
The milky way is 100000 light. A brief overview of astronomys place in the scientific endeavor the philosophy of science and the scientific method astronomy that can be done without a telescope a history of astronomy and science newtons law of gravity and applications to orbits einsteins relativity theories electromagnetic radiation telescopes all the objects of the solar system.