article_snippet: Next time someone asks you how wide the Milky Way is, you might want to rethink your answer of '100,000 light-years'.
article_snippet: Astronomers in New York have revised the size estimate for our galaxy (shown).
article_snippet: Astronomers in New York now say it is 50 per cent bigger in size at 150,000 light-years wide, not 100,000 light-years.
article_snippet: the Milky Way is thought contain more than 200 billion stars.
article_snippet: the Milky Way makes the Milky Way a ‘middleweight’ galaxy with the largest galaxy known, IC 1101, containing more than 100 trillion stars.
article_snippet: On a clear night, when you look up into the night sky the most you can see from any one point on the Earth is about 2,500 stars.
article_snippet: the Milky Way formed into the Milky Way current size by ‘eating’ other galaxies.
highlights_snippet: Astronomers in New York have revised the size estimate for our galaxy .
  
highlights_snippet: Astronomers in New York now say it is 150,000 light-years wide, not 100,000 light-years .
  