all names

Milky Way place

Named in 18 reports across 4 stories - 17 Aug – 31 Aug
17 Aug 202631 Aug 2026

Closest companions, sized by how often they share a report with Milky Way. Lines between the outer names are their own relationships - names that appear together even without Milky Way.

Anne Hathaway and Erin Kara share 4 reportsChile and Felix Mang share 4 reportsJulie Mcenery and Kennedy Space Center share 4 reportsChile and Ed Weiler share 4 reportsFelix Mang and Germany share 4 reportsAnne Hathaway and Matthew Mcconaughey share 4 reportsGermany and Matthew Mcconaughey share 4 reportsAnne Hathaway and Germany share 4 reportsChile and Julie Mcenery share 4 reportsAnne Hathaway and Chile share 4 reportsErin Kara and Matthew Mcconaughey share 4 reportsErin Kara and Germany share 4 reportsAnne Hathaway and Max Planck Institute For Extraterrestrial Physics share 4 reportsErin Kara and Felix Mang share 4 reportsMatthew Mcconaughey and Max Planck Institute For Extraterrestrial Physics share 4 reportsChile and Erin Kara share 4 reportsEd Weiler and Kennedy Space Center share 4 reportsChile and Matthew Mcconaughey share 4 reportsErin Kara and Max Planck Institute For Extraterrestrial Physics share 4 reportsGermany and Max Planck Institute For Extraterrestrial Physics share 4 reportsChile and Kennedy Space Center share 4 reportsChile and Germany share 4 reportsFelix Mang and Matthew Mcconaughey share 4 reportsAnne Hathaway and Felix Mang share 4 reportsEd Weiler and Julie Mcenery share 4 reportsFelix Mang and Max Planck Institute For Extraterrestrial Physics share 4 reportsChile and Max Planck Institute For Extraterrestrial Physics share 4 reportsMilky WayChileChile - 8 shared reports (place)Anne Hathaw…Anne Hathaway - 4 shared reports (person)Ed WeilerEd Weiler - 4 shared reports (person)Erin KaraErin Kara - 4 shared reports (person)Felix MangFelix Mang - 4 shared reports (person)GermanyGermany - 4 shared reports (place)Julie Mcene…Julie Mcenery - 4 shared reports (person)Kennedy Spa…Kennedy Space Center - 4 shared reports (organization)Matthew Mcc…Matthew Mcconaughey - 4 shared reports (person)Max Planck …Max Planck Institute For Extraterrestrial Physics - 4 shared reports (organization)

The stories

NASA is set to launch a telescope on August 30 that could detect around 100,000 new worlds — more than all previous planet-hunting observatories have found combined — using a camera that captures 100 times more sky than Hubble in a single shot.

52 outlets4 reports name Milky Way9 Aug – 3 Sept

James Webb’s little red dots may be monster stars that seeded black holes

20 outlets2 reports name Milky Way6 Aug – 3 Sept

Fastest-known star zooms under Milky Way black hole's influence

11 outlets10 reports name Milky Way19 Aug – 24 Aug

Ancient clash with 'Kraken' galaxy 12 billion years ago helped form Milky Way

5 outlets2 reports name Milky Way17 Aug – 18 Aug

Who keeps naming them

Google News - Top Stories7ABC News (Australia)1Channel News Asia1NPR News1houstonpublicmedia.org1kenw.org1wmra.org1southcarolinapublicradio.org1texarkanagazette.com1ky3.com1mercurynews.com1dailygalaxy.com1

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