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

Examples of the Milky Way in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The crew experienced a solar eclipse, including 54 minutes of totality where the sun’s light was blocked by Earth, spied planets, photographed the Milky Way and even witnessed flashes of light as space rocks slammed into the moon. —Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2026

From space, the crewmember who captured the image was blissfully free of the atmospheric interference that usually comes hand in hand with capturing the glowing band of the Milky Way. —Anthony Wood, Space.com, 8 Apr. 2026

Besides being a potent technological pathfinder, AeSI could also monitor many stars throughout a sizable swath of the Milky Way. —Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2026

The formation of the Milky Way galaxy. —Elena Megalos, Longreads, 31 Mar. 2026

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