You Don’t Understand How Big the Milky Way Is

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]The Milkyway is so large that light itself [music] needs over 100,000 years to cross it.

[00:00:07]Inside this galaxy are hundreds of billions of stars.

[00:00:11]>> [music] >> One of them is our sun and around that sun, a tiny planet called Earth.

[00:00:18]>> [music] >> Now, here's the disturbing part. Our entire solar system is drifting through the galaxy >> [music] >> at over 800,000 kilometers per hour.

[00:00:27]Yet, it still takes hundreds of millions of years to complete [music] a single orbit. That is the true scale of the Milkyway.