NOUN
- the galaxy containing the solar system; consists of millions of stars that can be seen as a diffuse band of light stretching across the night sky
How To Use Milky Way In A Sentence
- By recording the spectra of several distant quasars whose light pierces the Milky Way, the spacecraft revealed some 50 ultraviolet-absorbing gas clouds around our galaxy.
- High above us, the great heptagon of the Winter sky: Capella, Aldebaran, Rigel, Sirius, Procyon, Pollux, and Castor (with Saturn nearby) - with Betelgeuse in the center and the Milky Way cascading through, just to the left of Orion.
- By contrast, to reach our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, you'd need only twenty-five Milky Ways.
- In reality, the Triangle is taller but narrower and through it flows the Milky Way as it arches over the sky from Sagittarius in the SSW to Auriga in the NNE. Starwatch
- There are reckoned to be about 400 billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way.
- I shall move the Trenton into the unexplored quadrant behind the Milky Way and search for any remaining human warships.
- Under the band of Milky Way stars, we listened to crickets pulsate in the dewy grass, and watched the orange coals lick themselves with tiny flames.
- Yesterday's chart showed the part of our Milky Way galaxy that stretches overhead in the evening.
- In the Milky Way, near the Southern Cross, occurs a terrible circular abyss, the Coal Sack. The Blue Lagoon: a romance
- Some astronomers thought nebulae were part of our Milky Way Galaxy.