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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During its July 1, 2025 detection, the interstellar object happened to be moving through a particularly crowded part of the sky, packed with stars from the Milky Way.
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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 17 Dec. 2025
For possibly 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, 16 Dec. 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, AZCentral.com, 13 Dec. 2025
Our sun is a perfectly ordinary star, residing in a perfectly ordinary galaxy, out in the suburban fringes of one of the Milky Way’s spiral arms.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 1 Dec. 2025
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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 17 Dec. 2025
For possibly 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, 16 Dec. 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, AZCentral.com, 13 Dec. 2025
Our sun is a perfectly ordinary star, residing in a perfectly ordinary galaxy, out in the suburban fringes of one of the Milky Way’s spiral arms.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 1 Dec. 2025
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“The Milky Way.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Milky%20Way. Accessed 22 Dec. 2025.
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