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a galaxy currently devouring smaller ones and dragging us toward an inevitable collision.
means The Milky Way is the spiral galaxy that contains our solar system, visible from Earth as a faint band of light stretching across a dark night sky.
from A near word-for-word inheritance from Latin via Lac, the Greeks called it galaxías kýklos, the 'milky circle' (galakt-, 'milk' — the same root that gives us 'galaxy' itself). The myth went that this band of light was milk spilled from the breast of the goddess Hera. Latin rendered it via lactea, the 'milky way' or 'milky road,' and English simply translated the phrase straight across. So every time you say the name, you're repeating an ancient observation that the night's pale river looked like spilt milk.
- home count
- holds 100 to 400 billion stars
- hidden giant
- a 4-million-sun black hole sits at center
- slow crash
- merging with Andromeda in 4 billion years
- galactic cannibal
- it eats nearby dwarf galaxies whole
- sweet name
- Greek for milk; same root as the candy
milky way galaxy — our solar system's home galaxy containing ~200 billion stars, located in the orion spur of the galactic disk
milky way candy bar — chocolate bar first produced by mars inc in 1923, now sold in over 70 countries