Milky Way Definition

mĭlkē
noun
The galaxy containing the sun, solar system, and all of the individually visible stars in the night sky, along with various nebulae, star clusters, and dust clouds, thought to have a super-massive black hole at its center of mass.
American Heritage
The broad meandering band of faint light that consists of stars from this galaxy and is often visible in the night sky.
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pronoun

(astronomy) A broad band of diffuse white light, visible in the night sky; our view of the dense portions of the Milky Way Galaxy from inside the galaxy.

Wiktionary

(astronomy) The Milky Way Galaxy, the galaxy in which Earth is located; extension of the night sky phenomenon.

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Origin of Milky Way

  • Middle English translation of Latin via lactea via way lactea feminine of lacteus milky

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • A calque of Latin Via Lactea.

    From Wiktionary

Milky Way Sentence Examples

  • The important conclusion has been already derived that the majority of the stars in the Milky Way belong to one special type.

  • The horizontal axis is the Galactic Plane or Milky Way.

  • It is invisible during the greater part of June, July, December and January, owing to its being then blotted out by the superior light of the Milky Way.

  • Seeliger, who investigated this ratio for the stars of the Bonn Durchmusterung and Southern Durchmusterung, came to the conclusion (as summarized by Simon Newcomb) that for these stars the ratio ranges from 3.85 to 3.28, the former value being found for regions near the Milky Way and the latter for regions near the galactic poles.

  • There is here evidence that even among stars of the Durchmusterung (9.5 magnitude), a limit of the universe has been reached, at least in the direction normal to the plane of the Milky Way.

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