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Meanings of milky way galaxy in English

Portuguese
via lactea
Catalan
via láctea
Spanish
vía láctea

The galaxy containing the solar system; consists of millions of stars that can be seen as a diffuse band of light stretching across the night sky.

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Examples for "milky way"
Examples for "milky way"
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If it be the milky way, the stars must be the cows.
Wilfrid Cumbermede
2
Bright was the milky way, Shining and revolving in the sky.
The Shih King, or, Book of Poetry / From the Sacred Books of the...
3
The lady was covered with nocturnal glitterings, like a milky way.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
4
The milky way was bright, like a moonlit cloud; half heaven seemed milky way.
The Silverado Squatters
5
The narrow belt of visible sky resembled a milky way.
Overland: A Novel
Usage of milky way galaxy in English
1
Could we use the center of the Milky Way Galaxy as a reference?
The Science of Battlestar Galactica
2
Who knew that living in the Milky Way Galaxy would be so dangerous?
Wired
3
Dominating the foreground are large segments of our Milky Way Galaxy.
BBC
4
Inside currently is a model of the Milky Way Galaxy.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
5
Think of the Milky Way Galaxy as a dinner plate.
Skeptics and true believers: the exhilarating connection between...
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Estimates have been made of the number of advanced civilisations in our Milky Way galaxy.
The Irish Times
7
For starters, there's a supermassive black hole at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy.
The South African
8
Our sun is but one star of four hundred thousand million in the Milky Way galaxy.
The Irish Times
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It is a game built on top of a scientifically-modeled rendering of the Milky Way galaxy.
The Guardian
10
A billion unfamiliar stars, his same Milky Way galaxy, everyone figured, just seen from a different angle.
Cibola Burn
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Shapley believed that our Milky Way galaxy was 300,000 light years across.
BBC
12
The distance across the Milky Way Galaxy is about 10 21 meters.
Wired
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Our Sun is just one star in the Milky Way Galaxy, a spiral of a trillion stars.
Skeptics and true believers: the exhilarating connection between...
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There is a Super-Massive Black Hole at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy called Sagittarius A.
The South African
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This glowing stellar nursery is home to the most massive star yet found in the Milky Way galaxy.
Wired
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That's the entire Milky Way galaxy.
The Guardian
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