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银河系

Yín hé xì

3-character word Traditional 銀河系

What 银河系 means

1. Milky Way Galaxy
2. the galaxy (our galaxy)

The characters in 银河系

• 银yínsilver; silver-colored; relating to money or currency
• 河hériver; (bound form) the Yellow River; (bound form) the Milky Way
• 系xìto connect; to relate to; to tie up

Example sentences

• 太阳系是银河系中一个小的天体系统。
  Tàiyángxì shì Yínhéxì zhōng yī gè xiǎo de tiāntǐ xìtǒng.
  The solar system is a small celestial system in the Milky Way.
• 几个世纪以来，天文学家相信银河构成了整个宇宙。哈勃第一个证明了通过望远镜看到的天空中的模糊花斑是其他星系，而不是银河系的遥远部分。
  Jǐge shìjì yǐlái, tiānwénxuéjiā xiāngxìn Yínhé gòuchéng le zhěnggè yǔzhòu. Hābó dìyī gè zhèngmíng le tōngguò wàngyuǎnjìng kàn dào de tiānkōng zhōng de móhu huābān shì qítā xīngxì, ér bù shì Yínhéxì de yáoyuǎn bùfen.
  For centuries, astronomers believed that the Milky Way made up the entire universe. Hubble was among the first to show that the fuzzy patches in the sky seen through telescopes were other galaxies, not distant parts of the Milky Way.