It is the colour that stands out: a milky white marble with gold atop the domes and a vast marble courtyard that blinds you in the midday sun.
The first rain of the year, which fell last week, turned the Kukcha river, a snow-fed torrent that rushes through the town, from its normal milky jade to a muddy brown.
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The most well-known and is Ravis Restaurant on Satwa Road, a no-frills canteen that serves renowned butter chicken, best chased with milky chai in a polystyrene cup for three dirhams.
Drinking "cold coffee, " a milky-sweet coffee drink popular in India, Mohita acknowledges that the beverage costs more than a farmer like Shailendra would earn on an average day.
Apart from the formidable aiyla, there is also chyang, a milky rice beer which tastes faintly like cider.
Cirrostratus is a "very subtle" cloud that can be nothing more than a milky whitening of the sky.
More than 60% of the stars in the Milky Way have a companion star around which they orbit.
These lymph ducts drain a milky white fluid that contains byproducts of immune activity away from areas of inflammation and infection.
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Three basaltic peaks soared high above the lush forests, the surrounding water a milky dark green hue due to the volcanic sand below.
The alternative view, for those who like their galaxies light and fluffy, is that Sgr once orbited the Milky Way at a safer distance.
The thin moonlight diluted her coffee skin to a milky pallor.
These suggest that a population of stars that invaded the Milky Way when it was only a third of its present age can still be recognised.
The stationmaster checks the time as he sips on a cup of milky tea, but anyone could be forgiven for supposing he is waiting for a train that departed decades ago.
However, the Little Ouse itself had a distinctly milky appearance when I visited in May 2010.
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Most spiral galaxies, including our home galaxy the Milky Way, have a large concentration of ancient stars surrounding the centre that astronomers call the bulge.
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He mixed some hops and worked with the local brewer to create a drink that, aside from a slightly milky odor, looks and tastes like beer.
Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, has a colossal black hole at its core, too, which is some three million times the mass of our Sun.
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Pick up some milky sweets or eat a nice, hot curry off a banana leaf, and see some stunning examples of Tamil temple architecture at the Sri Mariamman Temple, whose four walls enclose both the holy space of worship and, to the faithful, the universe entire.
Snow had started falling again, in tiny flakes at first and then in thicker chunks slanting down from a dark, milky sky.
Here, looking towards the centre of the Milky Way, it spies a ribbon of cold gas and dust that is more than 600 light-years across and which appears to be twisted.
Other Biennial-related highlights include Bertrand Ivanoff's neon installations on the old Orthodox Palestinian Christian Church and Johan Tahon's milky ceramic figures set in a 15th-century tiled kiosk in walls of the Topkapi Palace.
One night I dreamed of an angel: I walked into a huge, empty bar and saw him sitting in a corner with his elbows on the table and a cup of milky coffee in front of him.
As I'd sat by the roadside cradling a cup of milky chai, I'd sensed from the gathering crowd of onlookers that tourism isn't thriving in the Indian state of Uttarakhand the way it is in other parts of the Himalayas.
"You can no longer just take a short drive from the city and look at the Milky Way or the northern lights, " says Chad Moore, a board director for the International Dark-Sky Association, a Tucson-based nonprofit organization.
Hong-Sheng Zhao of Leiden University in the Netherlands calculates that a close encounter with another one of the Milky Way's satellites, the Large Magellanic Cloud, could have knocked Sgr into a closer orbit two or three billion years ago.
By 20:30 in the evening, the sky is a blanket of stars and milky-white stains.
More than a billion stars blaze bright in a new photo of our Milky Way galaxy snapped by an international team of astronomers.
Since it is known that stars in small galaxies have fewer heavy elements than stars in big ones, it is plausible that these stellar oddballs are, indeed, stars that have dropped in from what was once a small neighbour of the Milky Way.
While the new photo captures an unprecedented number of stars, it's far from a complete stellar picture of the Milky Way.
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