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Milky Way
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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Milky Way a faint band of light crossing the sky, clearly visible on dark moonless nights and discovered by Galileo to be made up of vast numbers of faint stars. It corresponds to the plane of our Galaxy, in which most of its stars are located.
The Milky Way was sometimes named from famous pilgrimage routes; as
Walsingham Way and the
Way of St James (the road to Santiago de Compostela).
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The milky way, our home: we live in a pinwheel of stars.
Magazine article from: Highlights for Children; 8/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...a huge system of stars called the Milky Way galaxy. Our Sun is a star in the...empty space. Speeding Stars The Milky Way not only looks like a pinwheel...cruising at a steady speed. The Milky Way is one of 100 billion galaxies in...
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Ill-fated Milky Way neighbor found. (Milky Way Galaxy likely to absorb newly discovered dwarf galaxy)
Magazine article from: Science News; 4/9/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...just 50,000 light-years from the Milky Way's center. The Large Magellanic...spheroidal galaxy," Irwin says. The Milky Way's dwarf satellites shine about...light from foreground stars in the Milky Way and subtract it. Stretching across...
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Discovering a new galaxy: the milky way is tearing it apart.
Magazine article from: Highlights for Children; 8/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...their own gravity. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has more than 100 billion stars...space, below the starry disk of the Milky Way. The astronomers named the new galaxy...Astronomers think big galaxies such as the Milky Way may have been born when small galaxies...
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Milky Way's last major merger: new clues about galaxy formation thicken the plot.
Magazine article from: Science News; 12/14/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...and below the bulged center of the Milky Way is an elongated, wispy contingent...was the last major collision the Milky Way has endured, and the creation of...stars orbiting above and below the Milky Way's plane. The finding that the...
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Comfort Never Tasted So Sweet: Milky Way(R) Marks 85th Anniversary as America's First Filled Candy Bar.
PR Newswire; 7/17/2008; 700+ words
; ...celebration of the 85th Anniversary of MILKY WAY(R), the first ever "filled...shops declined in popularity, the MILKY WAY(R) bar remained a favorite of...than eight and half decades ago." MILKY WAY(R) Takes the Anniversary on the...
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New Measurements of the Milky Way Galaxy
Transcript from: NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday; 1/9/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...09-2009 New Measurements of the Milky Way Galaxy Host: IRA FLATOW Time 2...now. FLATOW: So, now we know the Milky Way is much bigger than we think it is...far we are from the center of the Milky Way, but how fast the Milky Way spins...
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New Map of Milky Way Shows Our Galaxy to Be a Cannibal; Study Shows Milky Way Is Out to Lunch.
News Wire article from: AScribe Science News Service; 9/24/2003; 700+ words
; ...streaming through our vicinity of the Milky Way galaxy, according to a new view...galaxy but uncommon in the outer Milky Way. The 2MASS infrared map of M giant...this nearest satellite galaxy of the Milky Way was discovered by a British team...
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Comfort Never Tasted so Sweet: Milky Way Marks 85th Anniversary as America's First Filled Candy Bar.
Newspaper article from: Science Letter; 7/29/2008; 700+ words
; ...celebration of the 85th Anniversary of MILKY WAY(R), the first ever "filled...shops declined in popularity, the MILKY WAY(R) bar remained a favorite of...than eight and half decades ago." MILKY WAY(R) Takes the Anniversary on the...
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SEVEN OR EIGHT DWARF GALAXIES DISCOVERED ORBITING MILKY WAY
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 1/9/2007; 700+ words
; ...orbiting Earth's home galaxy, the Milky Way. The discovery will be announced...probably by the tidal gravity of the Milky Way - and the 'Ursa Major II' dwarf...in the halo and thick disk of the Milky Way originated in smaller dwarf galaxies...
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The galactic gourmand. (a dwarf galaxy passing through the Milky Way)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 3/7/1998; 700+ words
; ...fluffy star-tails-is that what the Milky Way is made of? NEXT time the night...engulfed and cannibalised by the Milky Way. How quickly this is happening...galactic cannibalism has made the Milky Way the creature it is today are the...
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Milky Way
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Milky Way The Milky Way galaxy, sometimes...the distant reaches of the Milky Way. Just as Polish astronomer...technique and discovered new ways to deduce the size, structure, and contents of the Milky Way. The problem astronomers face...
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milky
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...color: not a blemish marred her milky skin. ∎ ...clear) cloudy: the old man's milky, uncomprehending eyes. 2. inf...compliant: they just talk that way to make you turn milky. DERIVATIVES: milk·...
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Galaxy
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...galaxias, or milky circle. The Milky Way galaxy in which the Earth ’...these spiral nebulae part of the Milky Way galaxy, or were they external galaxies...Shapley that they were part of the Milky Way. Curtis did not win the debate...
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Stars
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
...stars as tiny holes in the tent. The Milky Way, a dense band of stars that spans...belongs. In myths, however, the Milky Way has been a road, a river, and...Vilcanota River is a reflection of the Milky Way and water constantly circulates...
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galaxy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...independent star systems outside the Milky Way came from a study of the Andromeda...clouds, or bright nebulae , within the Milky Way. The sun and its solar system...the visible stars, are all in the Milky Way galaxy. Harlow Shapley encouraged...
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