Question: are we in the milky way?
Answer: We're about 26,000 light-years from the center of the galaxy, on the inner edge of the Orion-Cygnus Arm. It's sandwiched by two primary spiral arms, the Sagittarius and Perseus Arms. The artists' concepts above and below show the Orion-Cygnus Arm, the home spiral arm of our sun in the Milky Way galaxy.