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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Researchers have long been trying to exploit this to reveal dark matter, looking at regions where dark matter is expected to be concentrated—like the center of the Milky Way—in search of the telltale gamma ray signals.
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Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
Besides studying dark matter and dark energy, one of Roman's core surveys will be the Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey, in which millions of stars in the central bulge of the Milky Way galaxy will be studied, principally to look for exoplanets.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Nov. 2025
Hot wind is coming out of the Milky Way’s black hole.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
For potentially billions of years, the comet has drifted on a journey from the general direction of the constellation Sagittarius in the center of the Milky Way that recently brought it into our solar system.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 Nov. 2025
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Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
Besides studying dark matter and dark energy, one of Roman's core surveys will be the Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey, in which millions of stars in the central bulge of the Milky Way galaxy will be studied, principally to look for exoplanets.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Nov. 2025
Hot wind is coming out of the Milky Way’s black hole.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
For potentially billions of years, the comet has drifted on a journey from the general direction of the constellation Sagittarius in the center of the Milky Way that recently brought it into our solar system.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 Nov. 2025
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