The band of light across the sky from the stars and gas in the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy.
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
the galaxy in which we reside
The spiral galaxy containing our solar system. Visible from Earth as a broad band of faint light in the night sky.The archer of the constellation Sagittarius points the direction to its center.
The galaxy that contains our solar system and all the stars we can see in the sky. Also refers to the band of faint stars visible in the sky, which is in fact the plane of our galaxy as seen from within.
Our Galaxy which is viewed edgewise and is inclined 63o to the celestial equator.
A broad band of light that looks like a trail of spilled milk in the night sky. Created by the millions of faint stars that form part of our galaxy.
The galaxy in which the solar system is located, visible as a luminous band in the night sky.
the band of light that encircles the entire sky and results from the combined light of billions of stars in our galaxy’s disk
The name of our own Galaxy, a flattened disk of stars about 100,000 light years across.
the spiral shaped galaxy in which we live, made up of ten billion stars including our Sun. We see the Milky Way as a bright band of stars across the sky because our Sun lies in one of the spiral arms.
The bright band of stars stretching across the night sky. It is actually what we can see of our own Galaxy (we are looking at it from the inside, of course.) Our Galaxy is sometimes called the Milky Way Galaxy.
The galaxy which encompasses our Sun and solar system. In the `Great Debate' it usually referred to the band of light that runs across the sky and contains most of the visible stars. Today this term is synonymous with the whole of our Galaxy.
A faint starry glow which encircles the sky, caused by the combined light of millions of stars too far away and therefore too faint to see individually. Only visible in very dark skies (in fact, considered one way to decide whether the sky is reasonably dark). The glow follows the plane of our galaxy, and helps define that plane.
The spiral galaxy in which our Solar System resides, apparent as a luminous band across the sky. Milky Way Center
The galaxy in which we are located.
our galaxy; contains over 200 billion stars.
The name we give to our Galaxy or the band of stars visible in our summer skies.
Our Galaxy, of which the Sun is a member, seen by the naked eye as a luminous band across the sky.
The name of our own spiral galaxy and the band of light from the combined glow of stars and galaxies that lie along the galaxy’s equatorial plane.
Our galaxy. The Earth and beyond
The band of light that encircles the sky, caused by the bending of light from many stars lying near the plane of the Galaxy; also sometimes used to refer to the Galaxy in which the Sun belongs.
Our galaxy. The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy with four major arms containing young bright stars, gas and dust. The mass of the Milky Way is estimated to be between 400 billion and one trillion solar masses. The luminous diameter of our galaxy is some 80,000 light-years with our Sun orbiting about 25,000 light-years from the galactic center. However, the large-scale rotation of galactic matter suggests an even larger diameter extending beyond 120,000 light-years. This data indicates that galactic mass is not centrally located in the core; rather, the bulk is spread out beyond the Sun's galactic orbit. Perhaps only 10 percent of the galaxy glows as stars; the remainder is nearly invisible.
The Milky Way is our galaxy. It contains about 100 billion stars, of which the Sun is just one. The Milky Way rotates like a large catherine wheel. Click here to go back to where you were.
Broad, faintly luminous, irregular band of light that stretches across the sky and is caused by the light of innumerable stars too distant to be seen clearly with the naked eye.
Our Galaxy seen as a misty band of light which stretches across the night sky. The Milky Way contains about one hundred million stars. It has the shape of a disk with a diameter of about 100 000 light-years. The Sun lies about two-thirds of the way towards the edge of the disk from the centre.
The galaxy of which our solar system is a part.
The galaxy in which our solar system resides, appearing from Earth's perspective as a broad, luminous, irregular band of light that stretches completely around the celestial sphere and is caused by the light of myriads of faint stars.
a broad, faintly glowing band stretching across the night sky, composed of billions of stars in our galaxy too faint to be seen individually. It's invisible when the sky it lit up by artificial light or bright moonlight.
The Milky Way (a translation of the Latin Via Lactea, in turn derived from the Greek Γαλαξίας (Galaxias), sometimes referred to simply as "the Galaxy"), is a barred spiral galaxy of the Local Group. Although the Milky Way is but one of billions of galaxies in the universe, the Galaxy has special significance to humanity as it is the home of the Solar System. Democritus (450 BC–370 BC) was the first known person to claim that the Milky Way consists of distant stars.