Milky-Way Galaxy

See also: Milky Way Galaxy

English

Proper noun

the Milky-Way Galaxy

1. Rare form of Milky Way Galaxy.
   • 1944 April 30, Bob Bergar, “Lost in Time”, in Oakland Tribune, volume CXL, number 121, Oakland, Calif., section “The Oakland Tribune’s Boys and Girls Magazine”, page 2:

     Since the diameter of space-time is six billion light years, that was our own Milky-Way Galaxy that you saw through your 400-inch telescope. However, this is the Milky-Way Galaxy of two thousand years ago.

   • 1959 July 25, Martin A. Sloan, “A Peek At the Stars Can Provide Hours of Enjoyment for Residents, Local Amateur Astronomer Says”, in Daily Times-Advocate, volume XLVII, number 284, Escondido, Calif., page 10:

     Our Island Universe (The Milky-Way Galaxy) — and there are millions of them — contains over 100 billion Suns (or Stars) and planets by the hundreds of millions.

   • 1968 January 15, “Skies Over Port Huron”, in Port Huron Times Herald, volume 58, number 15, Port Huron, Mich., section A, page 8:

     Many stories have been invented to account for this milky band of light, but today we know that it is the light of millions and millions of stars making up our “Island Universe” the Milky-Way Galaxy.

   • 1970 August 28, “Skies Over Port Huron”, in The Times Herald, Port Huron, Mich., section A, page 7:

     We belong to the Milky-Way Galaxy, one of about 100 billion stars formed in a disk shaped spiral structure.

   • 1975 August 28, Stephen Dodson, “There’s a star in the sky for each person on earth”, in The North Bay Nugget, 69th year, number 62, North Bay, Ont., page 7:

     You will notice that the wide band of sky which follows the Milky-Way from the northeastern horizon to straight overhead (through the summer triangle mentioned in the Aug. 14 Nugget) and on to the southern horizon is far richer in stars than the rest of the sky. This is because the Milky-Way Galaxy, our local “island universe,” is a disk-shaped object and quite thin in comparison with its diameter.

   • 1996 March 17, Jay Miller, “Having fun by getting ‘alienated’”, in Carlsbad Current-Argus, Carlsbad, N.M., page 4A:

     And the UFO Encounter stationery not only locates Roswell in the USA, but also on Planet Earth and in the Milky-Way Galaxy.

   • 2020 March 9, Ray Cassidy, “Are we alone in the universe?”, in Athol Daily News, volume CCCXXXI, number 659, Greenfield, Mass., page A6:

     Conservatively, there are about a hundred billion stars just in our Milky-Way Galaxy (not my numbers, folks!) — that’s a 100 with 9 zeroes after it — and conservatively there are about two hundred billion galaxies in the known universe (again, not my numbers either, folks!).