04. Where exactly in space is Earth? (A K2S Question)

From The Space Library

We are the third planet from the Sun, after Mercury and Venus, and we are about 93 million miles from the Sun. Even traveling at the speed of light it takes eight minutes to get between the Sun and the Earth. Our whole solar system sits somewhere near the outer edge of the fairly average spinning galaxy called the Milky Way, together with around 100,000 million other stars with their own solar systems. And then there are so many other galaxies that we have lost count, and the Hubble Telescope keeps finding new ones.

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Answer provided by Derek Webber

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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