The Milky Way is so large that if Earth were the size of a golf ball, it would be the size of New York City
The Milky Way is made up of 200 hundred billion (200,000,000,000) stars
If the Milky Way were the size of the US, the solar system would be the size of a quarter

The Milky way is, technically, photographed in evey picture we take, just really zoomed in.
The Milky Way has between 100 and 400 billion stars, but we can only see about 2,500 of them at any one point from Earth.
The Milky Way is so large that if the solar system were the size of a quarter, the Milky Way would be the size of the United States
The Milky Way is so large that If the Earth were the size of a golfball, the Milky Way would not even be able to fit in our solar system
The Milky Way rotates at a speed of 168 miles per second. So, the actual place in space where you were an hour ago is now roughly 600,000 miles away.