Milky Way

The milky-way icon represents the galaxy that contains our solar system, visible as a bright, hazy band of light in the night sky. It symbolizes the vastness and mystery of space.

In real-world applications, the milky-way icon appears in astronomy and space-related contexts, such as planetarium software, astronomy websites, and educational materials. It is also used in design and art to represent the cosmos and the infinite.

From a UX perspective, the milky-way icon communicates a sense of wonder, curiosity, and exploration. It helps users understand the vastness of space and can be used to navigate to related content or to inspire a sense of awe.

Milky Way is one of 3,174 icons in Fluent Emoji Flat, made by Microsoft Corporation and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 32 × 32 grid.

Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds MilkyWayIcon to components/icons/fluent-emoji-flat-milky-way.tsx: one file, a size prop (24 by default) and every SVG prop, with no icon package.

Copy it as React (from Get icon, or the Code section): a typed MilkyWayIcon component you paste into your project, with no package to install. Only the icons you import reach your bundle. It works in Next.js and any React app.

Open Get icon, then Copy as code, and pick Vue, Svelte, Angular, Solid or Preact; the Code section shows each one too. Every version is one self-contained component with the SVG inside, and SVG and data URL copies are there for plain HTML and CSS.

With Pro, the shadcn.io MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client find the Milky Way icon, or any of 3,174 Fluent Emoji Flat icons, and install it from a prompt.

It's multicolor, so it keeps its own colors.

Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 32 × 32 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

Yes. It keeps its own colors in light and dark mode, so check it against both backgrounds. The icon is a vector, so it needs no separate dark asset.

Next to a visible label it's decoration: add aria-hidden="true" so screen readers skip it. Standing alone, as in an icon button, give the button a name instead, like aria-label="Milky Way", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. MilkyWayIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <MilkyWayIcon aria-hidden="true" /> works, and so do role="img" with aria-label, or a title child, when it carries meaning on its own.

Yes. Open Get icon, then Download file: SVG for code or design tools like Figma; PNG, WebP or JPEG at 512px; or an ICO favicon with 16, 32 and 48px inside. Each one uses what you set in Customize.

Yes. MIT allows commercial use; keep the license notice when you ship the icons' source files. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

No visible credit is required: MIT only asks that you keep the license notice if you ship the icons' source files. Icons installed with the shadcn CLI already start with a comment naming Fluent Emoji Flat, Microsoft Corporation and the license.

Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.

2 other libraries draw an icon called Milky Way. The Other libraries section on this page shows each one, so you can compare them and open the one that fits your style.

Its tags are space, astronomy, night, sky, galaxy and cosmos. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Milky Way in another set.

Fluent Emoji Flat draws many icons in several styles: Light next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Milky Way's siblings in it.