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Earth vs milky way size comparison

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Size comparison of earth (12,742 × 12,742 × 12,742 km) and milky way (950,000,000,000,000,000 × 12,742 × 950,000,000,000,000,000 km), drawn to scale
Dimensions (height × width × depth)
ObjectAs enteredCentimetresInches
earth12,742 × 12,742 × 12,742 km1,274,200,000 × 1,274,200,000 × 1,274,200,000 cm501,653,543 × 501,653,543 × 501,653,543 in
milky way950,000,000,000,000,000 × 12,742 × 950,000,000,000,000,000 km95,000,000,000,000,010,485,760 × 1,274,200,000 × 95,000,000,000,000,010,485,760 cm37,401,574,803,149,609,238,528 × 501,653,543 × 37,401,574,803,149,609,238,528 in
Bounding-box volumes as bars: earth 2.1 × 10<sup>12</sup> km³, milky way 1.1 × 10<sup>40</sup> km³
Bounding-box volume*
ObjectVolumevs smallest
earth2.1 × 1012 km³1×
milky way1.1 × 1040 km³>1,000,000×

* Height × width × depth of the box each object fits in, not the object's own volume. Multiples are against the smallest box here, earth. Anything beyond a million times bigger is shown as >1,000,000×.