Milky Way

Models from the 1960s and ’70s predicted that most Milky Way halo stars should have formed in place.

New research shows early galaxies were much bigger—some 10 times the mass of the Milky Way—than astronomers expected.

Astronomers recently placed the Milky Way on the fringe of a huge supercluster.

For example, based on the ages of stars, we know the Milky Way is about 13.2 billion years old.

One magnetar is only about a light-year from the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

Most stars in the Milky Way have humdrum lives, tracing slow predictable orbits around the galactic center.

"No," said the Twins, "but there are no cats in the Milky Way," and they pulled the cat's tail thoughtfully.

"Her face was like the milky way," &c.—Where is the subjoined quotation taken from, and what is the context?

The Milky Way was a kind of Paradise of souls; whilst the sun was the centre of the whole creation.

It is the Galaxy, the Milky Way, composed of millions on millions of suns!

My brain got running on figures till the dark seemed to be all sown with dollar-marks, like the stars in the Milky Way.