Date
A personal galactic year
My Life in the Galaxy
The Sun carries you around the Milky Way at about 230 km per second, one full lap every 230 million years. Enter your birth date to watch 4.6 billion years of orbits lead up to the moment you arrived, then ride along for your first hundred years.
Milky Way, seen from above~100,000 ly across
You are here
The Sun, 26,000 light years from Sagittarius A*
Your hundred years in orbit
On the galaxy above, a whole century fits inside the Sun's glow. This lens magnifies that sliver of orbit until a lifetime becomes a visible arc. The exaggerated curve keeps the circle in view; true scale shows how straight it really looks. Everyone gets a shot at 100 here.
Age
Distance traveled
Kilometers
Light years
Share of one orbit
Sky and space events in your lifetime
Assumes the Sun moves about 230 km/s around the galactic center and completes an orbit in about 230 million years; published estimates run 220 to 250 km/s and 225 to 250 million years. Distances are measured in the galaxy's own frame. Deep-time dates are rounded scientific estimates, and future events are predictions. The spiral is a stylized model, not a star map.