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. Geoffrey Marcy:

   If the Milky Way actually has other intelligent species sending their spacecraft across the galaxy to settle around other stars on other planets, they might communicate using lasers, there could be a galactic Internet not borne by copper wires, not borne by fiber optics, but carried by laser beams crisscrossing the galaxy.

2. Tara Cornelisse:

   It's like the Milky Way flashes on and then off. You hear people gasp 'Ohhhh!'.

3. Eddy M Reyes:

   Hi Cosmos, How is your Milky Way? I miss you.

4. 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.

5. Chris Harrison:

   There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way, there is now good evidence that this black hole has driven large amounts of energy into the galaxy in the past, through the so-called ‘Fermi Bubbles,’ as well as other evidence. It is likely that billions of years ago the Milky Way was forming stars much more rapidly and the black hole may have played a role in shutting this down. However, this is not well understood. It is worth pointing out that the galaxies where we believe supermassive black holes have had the most influence are ‘dead’ with little-to-no stars forming. In contrast, the Milky Way is still forming stars (around one per year).