Milky-Way Galaxy

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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