Synonyms for 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. Tara Cornelisse:

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Imre Bartos:

   Luckily, neutron-star mergers only happen roughly every 100,000 years in the Milky Way, and ones that happen nearby do so less often, so we are not in any immediate danger in any way. and understand how they influenced the evolution of the galaxy.

5. David Sweeney:

   These compact remnants of dead stars show a fundamentally different distribution and structure to the visible galaxy, the ‘height’ of the galactic underworld is over three times larger in the Milky Way itself. And an amazing 30 percent of objects have been completely ejected from the galaxy.