Milky Way

The milky way icon represents the galaxy or a celestial body. It is often used to symbolize space, astronomy, or the universe. The icon features a distinctive starry design to convey a sense of vastness.

In digital communication, this icon is commonly used in educational, scientific, or entertainment contexts to convey a sense of exploration or discovery. It can be found in various software and platforms, including astronomy apps, educational websites, and science-related games.

From a UX perspective, this icon communicates a sense of wonder or curiosity. Its use can help users quickly understand the context or purpose of a particular feature or application.

Milky Way is one of 4,481 icons in OpenMoji, made by OpenMoji and released under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is drawn on a 72 × 72 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/openmoji-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 4,481 OpenMoji 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 72 × 72 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, with conditions: CC BY-SA 4.0 asks you to credit the author (OpenMoji), and icons you change must use the same license. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

Yes. CC BY-SA 4.0 asks you to credit OpenMoji, and icons you change must be shared under the same 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 emoji, space, astronomy, galaxy, stars and universe. 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.

OpenMoji 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.