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How many times has the sun traveled around the Milky Way?

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Our home star is also circling the Milky Way, or, more accurately, orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. The sun and the rest of the solar system is currently traveling through our galaxy at around 448,000 mph (720,000 km/h) At the sun's current speed, it takes around 230 million years for our home star to complete one trip around the galaxy.

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How many times has the sun traveled around the Milky Way?

Our solar system has been orbiting the Milky Way's black hole heart for 4.6 billion years. But it is hard to pin down exactly how many trips around the galaxy our sun has made during that time.

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