Synonyms for Milky Way
milky way

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1. Milky Waynoun

   The Milky Way Galaxy, the galaxy in which Earth is located; extension of the night sky phenomenon.

   Synonyms:
   Galaxy, Local Galaxy, Milky Way Galaxy

2. Milky Waynoun

   Synonyms:
   Silvery River, Great Sky River

Princeton's WordNet

1. Milky Way, Milky Way Galaxy, Milky Way Systemnoun

   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

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1. milky Waynoun

   Synonyms:
   galaxy

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1. milky way

   Synonyms:
   galaxy

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1. Mike Hollman:

   This is a great location for astro-photography, which attracts tourists from the world over, the Church makes for a nice subject, with the Milky Way and a shooting star in the background.

2. Tomoharu Oka:

   Investigations of gas motion with radio telescopes may provide a complementary way to search for dark black holes, the ongoing wide area survey observations of the Milky Way with the Nobeyama 45-m telescope and high-resolution observations of nearby galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have the potential to increase the number of black hole candidates dramatically.

3. Marcel Neeleman:

   Most galaxies that we find early in the universe look like train wrecks because they underwent consistent and often' violent' merging, these hot mergers make Milky Way difficult to form well-ordered, cold rotating disks like we observe in our present universe.

4. Marius Cautun:

   This phenomenon will generate powerful jets of high energy radiation emanating from just outside the black hole, while this will not affect Solar System, there is a small chance that we might not escape unscathed from the collision between the two galaxies which could knock us out of Milky Way and into interstellar space.

5. Masashi Chiba:

   This discovery implies hundreds of faint dwarf satellites waiting to be discovered in the halo of the Milky Way, how many satellites are indeed there and what properties they have, will give us an important clue of understanding how the Milky Way formed and how dark matter contributed to it.