the Milky Way
noun
1
: a broad band of light that can be seen in the night sky and that is caused by the light of a very large number of faint stars
2
: the galaxy in which we live that contains the stars that make up the Milky Way
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The Sun's movement through the Milky Way galaxy forms a shock wave on the front side of the heliosphere, similar to the wave created by the bow of a ship moving through water.
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Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
The supermassive one in the middle of the Milky Way shoots out jets of particles that expand into enormous bubbles.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2025
In 1923, Edwin Hubble became the first to determine that the spiral nebulae in our skies were not contained within the Milky Way, but rather were located many times farther away than any of the objects that comprised our home galaxy.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
In the Milky Way galaxy at large, the number of planets is not in the thousands, but in the billions.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
The supermassive one in the middle of the Milky Way shoots out jets of particles that expand into enormous bubbles.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2025
In 1923, Edwin Hubble became the first to determine that the spiral nebulae in our skies were not contained within the Milky Way, but rather were located many times farther away than any of the objects that comprised our home galaxy.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
In the Milky Way galaxy at large, the number of planets is not in the thousands, but in the billions.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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“The Milky Way.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Milky%20Way. Accessed 26 Sep. 2025.
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