milky way, n.Trivia

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.

If the Milky Way were the size of the US, the solar system would be the size of a quarter

The Milky Way is a galaxy located in one of the largest-known voids in the observable universe, known as the 'KBC Void'.

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 so large that it would take between 100,000 and 160,000 years to get across its diameter if you were to travel at the speed of light.

The Milky Way rotates at a speed of 168 miles per second. In the last hour, you've traveled roughly 604,000 miles through space.

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 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 has between 100 and 400 billion stars, but we can only see about 2,500 of them at any one point from Earth.

During a 1994 blackout in Los Angeles, 911 received calls about a sinister looking cloud in the sky. It was the milky way.

The Milky Way is made up of 200 hundred billion (200,000,000,000) stars