๐ Milky Way
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Emoji Meaning
1
A nighttime view of the galaxy, scattered with billions of stars and including our Solar System โ ideal for evoking the vastness and wonder of outer space.
2
A smiley-style illustration of our Milky Way galaxy. Our Earth orbits within it alongside thousands of other planets.
On a clear, dark night the Milky Way appears as a bright band arcing across the sky โ a luminous ribbon of stars. The Milky Way emoji is versatile: it can express awe or wonder, be a reaction to a beautiful photo, or simply stand for "space".
Also Known As
- ๐ Galaxy
- ๐ Night Sky
- ๐ Space
- ๐ Stars
- ๐ Universe
Apple Name
- ๐ Milky Way
Unicode Name
- ๐ Milky Way
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
๐ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F30C
Shortcodes
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For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%8C%8C |
| Punycode | xn--sg8h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 8C 8C |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83C\uDF0C |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f30c |
| CSS | \01F30C |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F30C} |
| Perl | \x{1F30C} |
| HTML hex | 🌌 |
| HTML dec | 🌌 |