Yet we're all part of it. We're on this 8,000 mile wide ball-shaped rock zipping around our star at approximately 66,000 miles per hour (over 18 miles per second). Our speed around the galaxy is much faster than that. Include our galaxy's motion within the Local Group, etc, etc... There may not be an end to it.
Honey? Where did we park the car?
That question takes on a whole new meaning.
The answer, of course, is "Back there".
/johnny
Yep. We home school, and my kids and I got onto that very subject a few weeks back. I think we lost track of all the potential directions and speeds before we even got to considering the Local Group. LOL
What's really interesting, is that the Andromeda galaxy and the Milky Way are headed toward collision (in billions of years). They're traveling toward each other at 250,000 miles an hour, and when they meet, scientists don't expect a single collision between their individual stars.
That's one helluva lotta space!