Physically speaking, the Milky Way includes100 billion to 400 billion stars, a large number of star clusters, nebulae and various types of interstellar gas and dust. Seen from the earth, the Milky Way is a silvery white ring around the sky. 90% of the matter in the Milky Way is stars. The total mass of the Milky Way is about 654.38+0 trillion times that of the sun, and the solar system revolves once every 200 million to 250 million years, which can be called a galactic year. So according to the age of the sun, the sun has circled the Milky Way 654.38+09-25 times. Scientists at Columbia University have accurately calculated the mass of the Milky Way. The latest results show that the mass of the Milky Way is about 210 billion times that of the sun, including clusters of thousands of stars on the edge of the Milky Way. Scientists got the mass distribution map of the Milky Way after running the supercomputer, and the calculated mass of the Milky Way is the most accurate.
The solar system contains many small galaxies, so which family is the smallest small galaxy? It's hard to find small galaxies. However, a small star is a different field, because it is a combination of dark matter, so it is completely different from ordinary galaxies. It is the Segregal 2 galaxy, which should be the smallest galaxy discovered so far. Galaxy? Segrega 2? It is only 200 times brighter than the sun and 900 times bigger than the solar system.