Milky Way galaxy and the Sun's orbit, computer artwork. The orange arrow marks the orbit of the Sun (yellow dot). The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy of over 200 billion stars, and it is about 100,000 light years across. The central region is a spherical bulge that contains mostly older, yellow stars. The spiral arms contain clusters of mostly younger, blue stars. The Sun is 28,000 light years from the galactic centre, taking about 220 million years to complete an orbit. The Sun is currently in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way, the faint arm seen between the larger two arms (Sagittarius Arm, inner; Perseus Arm, outer).

Photo website with Rights Managed and Royalty Free stock photos, images, illustrations and footage available for download immediately for commercial and editorial uses. Aflo is a leading independent supplier and producer of stock pictures and visual content. Search and find high quality images and video for design, print, web-use and publishing. Buy photos from our extensive collection of model released and property released sports images. Search some of the most beautiful travel and landscape pictures from our own photographers and license from our large collection of content, modern and archive, focusing on Japan. We provide free research. Register for personal account management and for full use of our Stock Photography website and start to download images now.