Sun's Distance from Center of Milky Way

 The Sun's Distance from the Galactic Center is 27,000 light years.  The value above is in light-years (ly).  However, this can be automatically converted to other distance units including parsecs, megaparsecs and kilolight-years.

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NOTES

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy some 100,000–120,000 light-years in diameter, which contains 100–400 billion stars. It may contain at least as many planets as well.^[23][24] The Solar System is located within the disk, about 27,000 light-years away from the Galactic Center, on the inner edge of one of the spiral-shaped concentrations of gas and dust called the Orion Arm.

The Galactic Center (or Galactic Centre)^[1] is the rotational center of the Milky Way. It is located about 8.33±0.35 kpc (~27±1 kly) from Earth^{[2][3][4][5][6]} in the direction of the constellations Sagittarius, Ophiuchus, and Scorpius where the Milky Way appears brightest. There is strong evidence consistent with the existence of a supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center of the Milky Way.

See the wonderful video representation of the Galactic Center from the European Southern Observatory

REFERENCE

[1] Milk Way

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[1] Galactic Center

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URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Center

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