Milky Way Facts

The Earth travels through space at 490,000 miles per hour as it orbits around the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

During the 1994 Northridge earthquake blackout in Los Angeles, emergency services received calls from concerned residents about strange silvery clouds in the sky. Many were seeing the Milky Way clearly for the first time in their lives.

The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.

The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.