How fast is the Milky Way moving?
2 million km/hAbout 1.24 million mph · Cosmic
About 550 km a second relative to the cosmic background radiation.
That's about 36,000 times a red kangaroo's top speed (56 km/h).
🌌2 million km/h
☄️Halley's Comet
By speed: the Milky Way is about 10× faster than Halley's Comet.
Things about as fast
- How fast was the Helios 2 probe?252,792 km/h
- How fast are Leonid meteors?255,600 km/h
- How fast was Juno at Jupiter?265,000 km/h
- How fast is Andromeda approaching us?396,000 km/h
- How fast is the Parker Solar Probe?692,000 km/h
- How fast does the Sun orbit the galaxy?828,000 km/h
- How fast is the solar wind?1.44 million km/h
- What is the Sun's escape velocity?2.22372 million km/h
Many real things vary, so we use a typical or official figure. Spotted a mistake? Email [email protected].