Canada's Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps perform in the gala exhibition during the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Beijing on December 10, 2023. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)
“The Queen” painted fibreglass by artist John Humphreys is displayed backdropped by other works which feature in this year's Summer Exhibition on it's 250th year at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Tuesday, June 5, 2018. The Summer Exhibition has been held since 1769, with around 1300 works on display this year and most of them available for purchase. It runs from June 12 until August 19. (Photo by Matt Dunham/AP Photo)
Mike De Paola, founding director of TW Fine Art, is seen near an art installation at “Feltz Bagels”, a bagel bakery made entirely from felt, at TW Fine Art in Montauk, New York, U.S. August 11, 2023. (Photo by Roselle Chen/Reuters)
The Milky Way is the galaxy in which Earth is contained. This name derives from its appearance as a dim “milky” glowing band arching across the night sky, in which the naked eye cannot distinguish individual stars. The term “Milky Way” is a translation of the Classical Latin via lactea, from the Hellenistic Greek γαλαξίας κύκλος (pr. galaxías kýklos, “milky circle”). The Milky Way appears like a band because it is a disk-shaped structure being viewed from inside. The fact that this faint band of light is made up of stars was proven in 1610 when Galileo Galilei used his telescope to resolve it into individual stars. In the 1920s, observations by astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies.
Jason Ramsay and Amy Laverty, from Arbroth, Scotland, pose beside a large Christmas tree at Bondi Beach on December 25, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. Bondi Beach is a popular tourist destination on Christmas Day. (Photo by Don Arnold/Getty Images)
Before sunrise there is a “Turneresque” sky over the abbey at the picturesque Wiltshire, England market town of Malmesbury on June 11, 2023. (Photo by Terry Mathews/Alamy Live News)
Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold of Norway shoots during the women's 10 km pursuit race at the Biathlon World Cup in Hochfilzen, Austria, Saturday, December 19, 2020. (Photo by Matthias Schrader/AP Photo)
Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus reacts after losing the first game of the third set to Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan in the women's singles final during the women's singles final at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, January 28, 2023. (Photo by Asanka Brendon Ratnayake/AP Photo)