How far away is the center of the Milky Way Galaxy to Earth in light years?

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How far away is the center of the Milky Way Galaxy to Earth in light years?

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Answer 1 · 2016-02-23T04:25:18

27K light years

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Only 2-sd approximation is given.
Note that the Earth-Sun distance 1 AU = 1/62900 ly = 0.000016 ly does not contribute at all to even 4-sd approximation Sun-MV center distance = Earth-MV center distance

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