A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things through some connective, usually like, as, than, or a verb such as resembles.. A simile differs from a metaphor in that the latter compares two unlike things by saying that the one thing is the other thing.
A galaxy is an enormous collection of gas, dust and billions of stars held together by gravity. One galaxy can have hundreds of billions of stars and be as large as 200,000 light years across.
The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. The descriptive milky is derived from the appearance from Earth of the galaxy â a band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye. The term Milky Way is a translation of the Latin via lactea, from the Greek Î³Î±Î»Î±Î¾Î¯Î±Ï ÎºÏÎºÎ»Î¿Ï. From Earth, the Milky Way appears as a band because its disk-shaped structure is viewed from within. Galileo Galilei first ...