galaxy
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- noun
- /ˈɡæləksi/
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galaxia
- Microlensing suggests that our galaxy has more planets than stars.
- Milky Way galaxy
- stars and galaxies
- galaxy formation
So we're seeing those galaxies as they were back then.
- So we're seeing those galaxies as they were back then.
- Indeed it could form planets and galaxies just like ours.
- How do you tell how far away a Galaxy is from us?
- Should we today be seeing galaxies slipping over the horizon?
- Let's choose coordinates so that the Galaxy is sort of frozen in the grid.
- The James Webb Space Telescope keeps finding galaxies that shouldn't exist.
Examples
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The first step to colonizing the galaxy.
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Instead, they lie at the center of galaxies, including our own.
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Up next is what came first, the Galaxy or the black hole?
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Something in our galaxy has to line up perfect with something else somewhere else.
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Earth is the only planet in the galaxy to produce this incredible resource.
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Our own solar system is just one tiny part of the galaxy known as the Milky Way.
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Universe has two trillion galaxies, and each galaxy contains billions of stars.
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The pattern we observe in the distribution of galaxies has profound implications.
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Extragalactic astronomers have long recognized that galaxies are not uniformly distributed in space.
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Astronomers estimate that there are about two trillion galaxies in the observable universe.
Synonyms
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A group of stars that contains our solar system and looks like a band of light in the night sky
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A large group of stars with a bright center and curved arms that wind outward
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A large group of stars that contains the solar system and looks like a faint milky band in the sky
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A nearby irregular galaxy visible from the southern sky that orbits the Milky Way
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A very large group of stars and galaxies that forms in space
A large group of stars and dust outside our galaxy
A small irregular galaxy near the Milky Way that you can see from the Southern Hemisphere
Compounds
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5.9
A large group of stars with a bright center and curved arms that wind outward
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3.5
A large group of stars that contains the solar system and looks like a faint milky band in the sky
How Big
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Galaxy comes from the Greek word gala meaning 'milk'. Long ago people saw the Milky Way as a 'river of milk' in the sky, so a galaxy is a large, 'milky' group of stars.