Milky Way Emoji
🌌
What does the Milky Way emoji mean?
1
A nighttime view of the galaxy, scattered with billions of stars and including our Solar System, 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 — 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
- 🌌 Galaxy
- 🌌 Night Sky
- 🌌 Space
- 🌌 Stars
- 🌌 Universe
Apple Name
- 🌌 Milky Way
Unicode Name
- 🌌 Milky Way
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Milky Way emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🌌 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F30C
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
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 | 🌌 |