Milk′y Way′ n. the spiral galaxy containing our solar system, seen as a luminous band stretching across the night sky and composed of approximately a trillion stars. [1350–1400; Middle English, translation of Latin via lactea; compare galaxy]

English Translation. Milky Way. More meanings for via lactea. Milky Way noun.

Via Lactea (Latin) From via (“road, way”) + lactea, the feminine form of lacteus (“milky”).

1 : an Ethiopian princess of Greek mythology rescued from a monster by her future husband Perseus. 2 [Latin (genitive Andromedae)] : a northern constellation directly south of Cassiopeia between Pegasus and Perseus.

Explanation:Translated, that means “the road of milk.” The Romans actually got the name from the Greeks, who called our galaxy “galaxias kyklos” or “milky circle.” Incidentally, the Greek name is also where we get the term “galaxy.”

The Milky Way gets its name from a Greek myth about the goddess Hera who sprayed milk across the sky. In other parts of the world, our galaxy goes by other names. In China it’s called the “Silver River,” and in the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa, it’s called the “Backbone of Night.”

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“We have a habit of naming galaxies after rivers; the Milky Way is referred to as Akash Ganga.

Astronomers have long known that just as the solar system is part of the Milky Way, so the Milky Way belongs to a cosmic structure that is much larger still. …

The Milky Way got its name from the way it looks from the ground: like a streak of spilt milk across the sky. That hazy white band is made up of stars, dust and gas.

So – if we’re looking in a dark sky – when we look toward the galactic disk, we see the starry band of the Milky Way. And when we look up or down – away from the flat disk of the galaxy – we’re also seeing Milky Way stars. All of the stars we see with the eye alone belong to our Milky Way galaxy.

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy. The spiral arms contain stars, cold molecular gas, glowing star- forming regions and dark dust. The galactic bulge contains mainly older stars, and appears redder than the spiral arms. Since the central bulge is elongated, the Milky Way is classified as a barred spiral galaxy.

Judging from the number of stars large enough to produce such black holes, however, scientists estimate that there are as many as ten million to a billion such black holes in the Milky Way alone.

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