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Milky-Way Galaxy
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Milky Way Galaxy
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en Milky Way Galaxy.
en Bob Bergar Lost in Time w:Oakland Tribune CXL 121 Oakland, Calif. 30 April 1944 section “The Oakland Tribune’s Boys and Girls Magazine” 2 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/150103655/ 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.
en Martin A. Sloan A Peek At the Stars Can Provide Hours of Enjoyment for Residents, Local Amateur Astronomer Says w:Daily Times-Advocate XLVII 284 Escondido, Calif. 25 July 1959 10 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/568869805/ 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.
en Skies Over Port Huron Port Huron Times Herald 58 15 Port Huron, Mich. 15 January 1968 section A 8 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/209727194/ 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.
en Skies Over Port Huron w:The Times Herald Port Huron, Mich. 28 August 1970 section A 7 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/209650223/ We belong to the Milky-Way Galaxy, one of about 100 billion stars formed in a disk shaped spiral structure.
en Stephen Dodson There’s a star in the sky for each person on earth The North Bay Nugget 69th year 62 North Bay, Ont. 28 August 1975 7 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/731893550/ 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.
en Jay Miller Having fun by getting ‘alienated’ w:Carlsbad Current-Argus Carlsbad, N.M. 17 March 1996 4A https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/505424263/ And the UFO Encounter stationery not only locates Roswell in the USA, but also on Planet Earth and in the Milky-Way Galaxy.
en Ray Cassidy Are we alone in the universe? w:Athol Daily News CCCXXXI 659 Greenfield, Mass. 9 March 2020 A6 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/791626973/ 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!).