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🌌 Milky Way

Also known as: Galaxy, Night Sky, Space, Stars, Universe

Unicode: U+1F30C

Description

The Milky Way – a galaxy of billions of stars that includes our own solar system and planet earth. Shown by many platforms as a night sky, with silhouettes of mountains or hills in the foreground.

Image Variants

Milky Way 3D

3D

Milky Way Color

Color

Milky Way Flat

Flat

Milky Way High Contrast

High Contrast

Version Information

Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0

Keywords

milky wayspace

Shortcodes

PlatformShortcodeAction
Emojipedia:milky_way:
GitHub:milky_way:
Slack:milky_way:
Discord:milky_way:

Additional Information

Category:Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs -> Weather, landscape, and sky symbols
Definition:

The Milky Way – a galaxy of billions of stars that includes our own solar system and planet earth. Represented in emoji realistically by App http://emojipedia.org/milky-way/

Nouns:
  • The Milky Way Galaxy, from when it was thought the Universe (our universe) had only one galaxy
  • The Milky Way Galaxy, the galaxy in which Earth is located; extension of the night sky phenomenon.
  • Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. Way
  • The galaxy containing the solar system; consists of millions of stars that can be seen as a diffuse band of light stretching across the night sky
  • The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System.
  • The galaxy in which Earth is located
  • Spiral galaxy in the Local Group containing the Solar System
  • The "Milky Way Galaxy"
  • Spiral galaxy in which the Solar System is located.
  • Massive balls of plasma
  • Sphere of plasma held together by gravity, undergoing fusion
  • Luminous celestial body.