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galaxy Noun

— A galaxy is a large astronomical structure containing several billions of stars and other astronomical bodies, looking like a more or less regular spiral with a thick core and thinner edges. The Milky Way is the galaxy where our Earth is located, it has about 200 billion stars. The known universe contains billions of galaxies. — The galaxy : the galaxy we live in, the Milky Way (very often employed with the definite article). Some science-fiction writers imagine that mankind will one day settle an empire throughout the galaxy.

galaxy

— noun a splendid assemblage (especially of famous people) — noun (= extragalactic nebula) (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' — noun (= galax) 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

Synonyms galaxy synonyms

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Topics galaxy topics

What do people use galaxy to talk about?

Universe, creation Sky Sun

Star

What is a group of stars called?

constellation galaxy nebula

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Our galaxy is called the Milky Way.

There are innumerable stars in the galaxy.

We were lucky of having born in the same galaxy.

The Sagittarius and Perseus Arms of the galaxy remained unexplored for thousands of years.

How many stars are there in our galaxy?

There's a black hole at the center of our galaxy.

Wormholes allow spaceships to travel throughout the galaxy.

The Earth and Sun are just tiny dots among the billions of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.

A galaxy is a cluster of stars, dust, and gas which is held together by gravity.

The Andromeda galaxy is over 2 million light-years away from us.

A galaxy contains not only stars, but clouds of gas and dust.

A black hole in the center of the M87 galaxy in the constellation Virgo, which is 50 million light-years away, has been calculated to have a mass equal to that of 3 billion Suns!

Many stars are forming within the galaxy.

We live in the Milky Way galaxy.

I live in the Andromeda Galaxy.

There are over 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

The Milky Way is called a spiral galaxy because it has long arms which spin around like a giant pinwheel.

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It will do this by only looking at 1 00,000 stars out of at least 200 billion in our galaxy.

If Kepler does find Earth-like planets, this method of sampling will bring us one step closer to understanding how many habitable homes are in our galaxy.

Even if one out of a thousand stars in the Milky Way galaxy has a planet like the Earth that means there are millions and millions of Earths orbiting other stars.

With so many stars and so many planets out there, it would truly be a surprise if intelligent life did not exist somewhere in the universe, perhaps even nearby in our own galaxy.

Right now, in our own Milky Way galaxy alone, there may be numerous intelligent alien civilisations.

What about communicating with people across the galaxy where there are tens of thousands or a hundred thousand light years in between?

The stadium.is the galaxy.

I Love Lucy and Gilligan's Island have been broadcast to the galaxy, travelling at the speed of light, and they are our emissaries, they are our diplomats to the galaxy.

For them to exist in any numbers in the galaxy, they would have to have long lifetimes as intelligent, technological, communicating civilisations.

I've been from here to there in this galaxy, and I want you to know..you're the most understanding soul I ever met up with.

It just doesn't fit into normal nature anywhere in the galaxy.

This is Eros, a space soldier from a planet of your galaxy.

Strange things have been occurring not only in our own galaxy, but in the extra-galactic systems too.

And one of those questions caught his attention early on: the properties of the ensemble of stars we see in the sky, the Milky Way Galaxy.

Thanks to this discovery he established his name even more so, which helped him pursue his plans for further research on the Milky Way Galaxy in collaboration with institutions abroad.

At the end of the 1920s the young astronomer Jan Oort derived the rotation of the Galaxy from movements of the stars in the Sun's neighbourhood.

But how could we get an impression of the entire Galaxy?

But if it were true, if that emission really existed, it would be a very powerful tool to study the Galaxy.

Because emission from that wavelength went practically unhindered by the clouds of dust, so emission from all parts oi the Galaxy would be visible!

Engineer De Voogt from the PTT made one of these dishes available for research on the Galaxy in 1948.

In the end of 1950 he came to work at the Dutch Foundation for Radio-emission from the Sun and the Milky Way Galaxy.

In that lecture he wanted to show the first map of the distribution of hydrogen clouds in the Galaxy.

In order to put together the first map of the Galaxy, Oort, the director of the Leiden Observatory, organised a crash-action.

He then determined where in the Galaxy the hydrogen atoms with different velocities were located.

That was a first indication that our Galaxy has indeed spiral arms of hydrogen gas.

We measured the radio emission as a function of velocity and determined from those the positions of hydrogen clouds in the Galaxy. Not only in the equatorial plane, but also above and below.

We made a three dimensional map of the distribution of hydrogen gas in the Galaxy.

A galaxy in Andromeda.

You mean that what I am seeing now is the way this galaxy looked 700,000 years ago?

It comes from outer space, from some godforsaken antimatter galaxy millions and millions of light years from the Earth.

We're free men of the galaxy, we demand our liberty!

Males of the galaxy, listen to me!

It's the most lovely thing in the galaxy and the universe.

We should be up there - another time, another galaxy.

We are from the planet Drahva, in Galaxy Four.

Some four hundred dawns ago, we were investigating this particular section of the galaxy.

Galaxy or local call?

As an inter-galaxy double agent, I think.

Just ask for Galaxy Service.

When the war's over I'll put you in charge of another galaxy.

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For him, abstract thought is a luxury that requires time, information, and a reason to reflect on a subject that, at first sight, appears to be from another galaxy.

Today, we don't need to rely on such verbal descriptions of our planet's insignificance against the background of our galaxy.

PASADENA - Almost a century ago, the first galaxy beyond our own was discovered, and within a decade the theory that the universe is expanding was first proposed.

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