Facts About the Milky Way:

1. The Milky Way began as a series of dense regions in the early universe not long after the Big Bang.

2. The Milky Way moves through space at a velocity of about 552 kilometres per second (343 miles per second)
with respect to the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation.

3.The Milky Way’s central core contains a supermassive black hole. It is commonly referred to as Sagittarius A*

4. Our galaxy will collide with Andromeda Galaxy in about 5 billion years. Some astronomers refer to our
two galaxy as a binary system of giant spirals.

5. The width of the path of totality is usually about 160 km across and can sweep across an area of Earth’s
surface about 10,000 miles long.