Milky Way
noun
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: a broad luminous irregular band of light that stretches completely around the celestial sphere and is caused by the light of myriads of faint stars
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Here's everything to know about our Milky Way, including how to see the stunning natural phenomenon from Arizona.
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Eric Lagatta, AZCentral.com, 5 Mar. 2026
This Milky Way image, however, is like a top-down view of the entire city.
—Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 5 Mar. 2026
The interloper into our cosmic neighborhood came from the general direction of the constellation Sagittarius, where the central region of our Milky Way galaxy is located.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 4 Mar. 2026
This makes these lenses ideal for wide-field nightscapes and Milky Way capture.
—James Abbott, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2026
After appearing in a purple splatter colorway that some likened to Nike’s iconic Air Foamposite One Galaxy print, the brand’s new GT Future basketball sneaker is getting a full-on Milky Way makeover.
—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 15 Feb. 2026
For example, the 8K Milky Way stitching feature automatically generates mosaics far wider than a single frame.
—New Atlas, 29 Jan. 2026
The company’s gray salt caramels (dipped in dark chocolate) and smoked salt caramels (wrapped in milk chocolate) are like a better Milky Way, as one of my colleagues put it (without the nougat, though).
—Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 24 Jan. 2026
Advertisement But our Milky Way is just one galaxy.
—Richard Panek, Time, 25 Dec. 2025
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Eric Lagatta, AZCentral.com, 5 Mar. 2026
This Milky Way image, however, is like a top-down view of the entire city.
—Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 5 Mar. 2026
The interloper into our cosmic neighborhood came from the general direction of the constellation Sagittarius, where the central region of our Milky Way galaxy is located.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 4 Mar. 2026
This makes these lenses ideal for wide-field nightscapes and Milky Way capture.
—James Abbott, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2026
After appearing in a purple splatter colorway that some likened to Nike’s iconic Air Foamposite One Galaxy print, the brand’s new GT Future basketball sneaker is getting a full-on Milky Way makeover.
—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 15 Feb. 2026
For example, the 8K Milky Way stitching feature automatically generates mosaics far wider than a single frame.
—New Atlas, 29 Jan. 2026
The company’s gray salt caramels (dipped in dark chocolate) and smoked salt caramels (wrapped in milk chocolate) are like a better Milky Way, as one of my colleagues put it (without the nougat, though).
—Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 24 Jan. 2026
Advertisement But our Milky Way is just one galaxy.
—Richard Panek, Time, 25 Dec. 2025
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“Milky Way.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Milky%20Way. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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