Milkyway vs Galaxy - What's the difference?
milkyway | galaxy |
* 1633 , John Donne, "Sapho to Philænis":
(galaxy) Any of the collections of many millions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherent systems, of which there are billions in the known universe.
As a proper noun galaxy is
(astronomy|dated) the milky way galaxy, from when it was thought the universe (our universe) had only one galaxy.milkyway
Not English
Milkyway has no English definition. It may be misspelled.galaxy
English
Noun
(galaxies)- So may thy cheekes red outweare scarlet dye, / And their white, whitenesse of the Galaxie [...].
