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. 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.

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. 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.

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. 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.