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Milky Way

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Noun

1. milky way, milky way galaxy, milky way system

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Milky Way

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noun
the Milky Way
1. 
the diffuse band of light stretching across the night sky that consists of millions of faint stars, nebulae, etc, within our Galaxy
2.  another name for the Galaxy

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Milky Way

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thethe spiral galaxy containing our sun: seen from the earth as a broad, faintly luminous band of stars and interstellar gas arching across the night sky, with the constellation Sagittarius marking the direction to its center

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Milky Way

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n.
1. The galaxy containing the sun, solar system, and all of the individually visible stars in the night sky, along with various nebulae, star clusters, and dust clouds, thought to have a super-massive black hole at its center of mass.
2. The broad meandering band of faint light that consists of stars from this galaxy and is often visible in the night sky.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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