From that time on, the king allowed the princess to cross over the
Milky Way to see her husband only once each year--on the eve of the seventh day of the seventh month.
Primary, aqueous liquid-vapor (L-V) inclusions (criteria of Roedder, 1984) were examined in both the amethyst overgrowths and the
milky quartz.
"In the
Milky Way, star formation began like gangbusters and later declined," explained team member Sten Hasselquist from the University of Utah.
According to a study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, the Large Magellanic Cloud will catastrophically collide with the
Milky Way in 2 billion years.
The summer
Milky Way also has "stars uncounted" and, if not "shoreless seas," at least the shoreless bank of a celestial river, for the edges of the
Milky Way band fade off imperceptibly.
This is what we generally see in the night sky as "the
Milky Way" and that's where our galaxy found its name.
The Solar System is located in one of the arms in the disc of a barred spiral galaxy we call the
Milky Way, with a diameter of about 100,000 light years.