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

These urban residents were seeing the Milky Way for the first time. —Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), scientists have discovered that the interstellar invader comet 3I/ATLAS formed in a much colder region of the Milky Way than our solar system. —Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Apr. 2026

Discovered in the 1960s, the binary system is located in the Milky Way within the Cygnus, or swan, constellation. —Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026

Taking our Solar System as a proxy for what’s out there in the galaxy and the rest of the Universe, there are likely tens of trillions of bodies in hydrostatic equilibrium, at least, across the entirety of the Milky Way. —Big Think, 14 Apr. 2026

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