The Milky Way rotates at 560,000 miles per hour, and makes a full revolution every 200 million years. Or did you already know that?
Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science newsEighteenth-century philosopher Immanuel Kant was one of the first people to theorize that the Milky Way was not the only galaxy in the universe. Kant coined the term island universe to describe a galaxy.One of the earliest uses of the English term Milky Way was in Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14th-century poem “The House of Fame.” He likened the galaxy to a celestial roadway.
Editor's Note 10/13/14: We mistakenly said all galaxies are receding from ours when in fact only some are. We regret the error.
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