| A beam of light would take about 100,000 years to cross the Milky Way from one side to the other. |
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| All of the stars comprising the Milky Way galaxy revolve around the centre of the galaxy once every 200 million years or so. |
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| If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool. |
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| The centre of the Milky Way is about 25,000 light years away from us. |
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| The Milky Way is sometimes described as looking like two fried eggs back to back. |
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| The Milky Way slowly spins as it moves through space like a giant cartwheel. |
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| There are over 100 billion stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. |
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| We cannot see the centre of the Milky Way. |
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