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The Milky way galaxy which is ours rotates at the speed of 560,000 miles per hour.

Our Galaxy, the milky way makes a full revolution every 200 million years.

there are about 100 billion to 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe. Some believe the number could be infinite as the universe may be infinite itself.

Like planets, galaxies rotate around their centers.

M60-UCD1 is the smallest galaxy discovered by humans. It has a radius of about 80 light-years.

Our solar system takes about 240 million years to completely rotate around the Milky Way.

Almost every massive galaxy has a black hole at its center; this includes the Milky Way's Sagittarius A with a 23.6 million kilometers (14.6 million miles) diameter.

The Black Eye Galaxy (M64), is one of the strangest galaxies in the observable universe because parts of it spin in opposite directions.

g081421-68, also known as Alcyoneus is the largest galaxy ever discovered with a diameter of 16.3 million light-years.

NGC 3808A and NGC 3808B are two galaxies that missed a collision with each other. However, they did not leave unscathed as their near miss caused a link to form between them.

Even though the Milky Way is 100,000 light years in diameter, it has a thickness of 1000 light-years.

Ring galaxies are a rare type of galaxies that only occure 1 in 10,000 times.

JADES-GS-z7-01-QU is the oldest recorded galaxy. It was formed about 330 million years after the Big Bang

We can't see most of the Milky Way because of dust that reflects visible light.

The nearest galaxy to the Milky Way, Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, is so far that it will take humans approximately 749,000,000 years to reach it using our current technology.

Though it contains billions of stars, the Milky Way is mostly made of empty space.

Because the universe is constantly expanding, we cannot reach most galaxies, even at the speed of light. Only about 3% is accessible if we travel at light speed.

Most galaxies have very tiny pieces of matter called stardust. A2744_YD4 is one such galaxy. It's stardust content is 6 million times more massive than our sun..

Lenticular galaxies are a type of galaxy that rests between an elliptical and spiral shape. They have bulges at their center that makes them look like lenses..

Though the Milky Way houses our solar system, it does not belong to the active class of galaxies as it does not have significant activity like other galaxies.