Milky way
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- Shortcode
:milky_way:- Unicode
U+1F30C- HTML
🌌- CSS
\1F30C- JavaScript
"\u{1F30C}"- URL
%F0%9F%8C%8C
What ๐ means
A band of stars across the night sky. It means the galaxy, deep space and the sense of something vast.
Stargazers and space fans use it for night-sky photos and astronomy. It also fits cosmic, dreamy and mind-expanding posts, and big feelings about the universe. Pairs with ๐ and ๐ญ.
Facts
Milky way ๐ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under sky weather. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :milky_way:. People also look for it with words like โmilkyโ, โspaceโ, or โwayโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.