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US
/ˈɡæɫəksi/
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[ UK /ɡˈælɐksˌi/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈælɐksˌi/ ]
NOUN
- a splendid assemblage (especially of famous people)
- tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall
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(astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust
`extragalactic nebula' is a former name for `galaxy'
How To Use galaxy In A Sentence
- By recording the spectra of several distant quasars whose light pierces the Milky Way, the spacecraft revealed some 50 ultraviolet-absorbing gas clouds around our galaxy.
- If it were a little more curved it would collapse, imploding on itself in a cosmic crunch; a little less curved, and every star, planet, sun and galaxy would fly apart from each other and so would every atom of matter in each of them.
- Reuters Samsung Electronics 'Galaxy S smartphone, branded with NTT DoCoMo's logo, on display at Japanese electronics show CEATEC, in Chiba, on Oct. 5, 2010. Samsung, DoCoMo Team Up to Sell Galaxy Devices
- I like to think if the galaxy is a conscious being then it would be self aware, as I'm thinking of it as a hyperconscious being.
- From any chosen viewpoint it looks as though every other galaxy is going away from you.
- By contrast, to reach our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, you'd need only twenty-five Milky Ways.
- Within a few million years, quasar and galaxy will have merged.
- The other object is SN 2007gr, which was first detected in August 2007 in the spiral galaxy NGC 1058, some 35 million light-years away it's one of the closest Ic supernovae detected in the radio waveband. GRB Central Engines Observed in Nearby Supernovae? | Universe Today
- Perhaps to the disappointment of the L.A Galaxy star's legion of female fans, the 36-year-old did not arrive wearing just a pair of briefs - but covered up in a casual combination of stonewash jeans and chunky, cream cardigan. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
- Whereas some folks consider brown dwarfs the duds of the galaxy, astronomers see beauty in these substellar embers.
