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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The new Galactic Brownie flavor combines brownie batter ice cream, gooey brownie bits, creamy chocolate icing swirls, and rainbow chips that dazzle like the stars in the Milky Way.
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Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
This is also the last months to see the Milky Way core in the northern hemisphere.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2025
Simulating a cosmic storm To test this, the researchers simulated a black hole with a billion solar masses at the center of a galaxy cluster weighing a quadrillion Suns, a thousand times the Milky Way’s mass.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
That’s the Milky Way band, the thickest part of our home galaxy.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025
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Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
This is also the last months to see the Milky Way core in the northern hemisphere.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2025
Simulating a cosmic storm To test this, the researchers simulated a black hole with a billion solar masses at the center of a galaxy cluster weighing a quadrillion Suns, a thousand times the Milky Way’s mass.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
That’s the Milky Way band, the thickest part of our home galaxy.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for the Milky Way
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“The Milky Way.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Milky%20Way. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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