Giant Leaps 10,000,000,000,000,000 km

1019 meters = 10,000,000,000,000,000 kilometers

At about 1,000 light-years, you can begin to see a large chunk of the Orion spiral arm of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Spiral arms are named according to the constellation in which they appear brightest. So the sun is said to be located in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way galaxy. This region is also home to the Great Orion Nebula.

But, you are about to leave the disk of the Milky Way.