Galaxy Song

Just remember that you standing
On a planet that's evolving
Revolving at 900 miles an hour
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
The Sun and you and me
And all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral orb, at 40,000 miles an hour
Of the Galaxy we call the Milky Way

Our Galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It's a 100,000 light years side to side
It bulges in the middle 16,000 light years thick
But out by us it's just 3,000 light years wide
We're 30,000 light years from galactic central point
We go round every 200,000,000 years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding Universe

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Our Universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go, the speed of light you know, 12,000,000 miles a minute
And that's the fastest speed there is!
So, remember when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause I'm afraid that we've been cheated here on Earth