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 real star of the footage is the Milky Way glowing behind it.
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Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
Mapping the Milky Way like never before — Goodnight, Gaia!
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Astronomers first knew FRBs were coming from outside the Milky Way because their light was dispersed, meaning the higher frequencies arrived a few milliseconds before the lower ones.
—Adam Mann, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2021
In short, the maps show not the Milky Way in static equilibrium, as researchers expected, but rather the galaxy's departure from it.
—Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
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Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
Mapping the Milky Way like never before — Goodnight, Gaia!
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Astronomers first knew FRBs were coming from outside the Milky Way because their light was dispersed, meaning the higher frequencies arrived a few milliseconds before the lower ones.
—Adam Mann, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2021
In short, the maps show not the Milky Way in static equilibrium, as researchers expected, but rather the galaxy's departure from it.
—Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
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“The Milky Way.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Milky%20Way. Accessed 26 Feb. 2025.
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