Originally posted by Shakyamunison
I thought the galaxy in SW was smaller then the Milky Way. I am basing this on the last seen from The Empire Strikes Back where Luke is looking out onto a spiral galaxy. If their galaxy was the size of the Milky Way, then they would have been a lot further away then what would be practical. I therefore assumed that it was a smaller galaxy.
Wookiepedia says it's 120,000ly across. That's 20% bigger than ours/ST's.