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Hobbes@startrek.website 8 months agoWhich other galaxies are named after milk?
Comment on How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside of it?
Hobbes@startrek.website 8 months agoWhich other galaxies are named after milk?
BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The word galaxy itself comes from the old Greek word for milk, so all galaxies are named after milk.
Hobbes@startrek.website 8 months ago
Cool. I was trying to figure out if there was a bovine with the root word Andromeda in it. Because there are dromedary animals. But even do that only got me as far as one Galaxy.