galaxy

[ˈɡæləksi]

Definition:
1. Any of the large systems of stars, etc. in outer space.
2. The system of stars that contains our sun and its planets, seen as a bright band in the night sky.
3. A splendid assemblage (especially of famous people).

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Use 'galaxy' in a sentence:

1. According to previous speculation, these strands were gases that had been blown out by an explosion in the galaxy.
2. The physicist Fabian reasoned that as intergalactic gas cools, the cooler gas shrinks inward toward the center of the galaxy.
3. Meanwhile, its place is taken by hotter intergalactic gas from farther out on the edge of the galaxy, which cools as it is compressed and flows into the galaxy.
4. An average of one new star is born in our galaxy each year.
5. The bright areas are where dark matter is most concentrated, and it's here that galaxies form.
6. A landmark in the history of science was made by a photo which was taken on April 10th about the black hole in a faraway galaxy.
7. Light from stars, even nearby in our own galaxy, doesn't stand a chance against that.
8. This line of reasoning underlies an exciting new theory of spiral-galaxy structure.
9. Since the lifetime of a planet like ours is several billion years, we can expect that, if other civilisations do survive in our galaxy, their ages will range from zero to several billion years.
10. Isn't that strange that the Milky Way is the galaxy that the planet earth is in, and most of us have never seen it?
11. Radio signals received from the galaxy's centre back up the black hole theory.
12. The Cartwheel Galaxy shows a ring that is the result of a collision between a small and a large galaxy.
13. Traveling through the country a couple of weeks ago on business, I was listening to the talk of the late UK writer Douglas Adams' masterwork "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" on the radio.
14. How many of you have seen the Milky Way, the Milky Galaxy in the sky?
15. They turned their telescopes towards other nearby galaxies.
16. A galaxy of twinkling stars matched the thousands of sparkling city lights.
17. The three spiky stars are in our own Milky Way galaxy.
18. It will help us to search for intelligent life outside of the Galaxy and explore the origins of the universe.
19. The net result is a continuous flow of gas, starting as hot gases in intergalactic space and ending as a drizzle of cool gas called a "cooling flow," falling into the central galaxy.
20. Apple Home Pod has Siri, Google Home has its Assistant, and the upcoming Galaxy Home device will have Bixby.
21. These stars vastly outnumber the other stars in a given galaxy.
22. Observations indicate that gas clouds in galaxy M87 are whirling unusually fast about the galaxy's center.
23. Within our own galaxy there are probably tens of thousands of planetary systems.
24. In fact, 24 per cent of our galaxy elemental mass consists of helium, which makes it the second most abundant element in our universe.
25. On the basic state of disk galaxy with finite thickness.
26. If many such chains were created in a differentially rotating galaxy, the distribution of stars would resemble the observed distribution in a spiral galaxy.
27. Explanation: Our magnificent Milky Way Galaxy sprawls across this ambitious all-sky panorama.
28. The hapless, mangled galaxy may have once looked more like our Milky Way, a pinwheel-shaped galaxy.
29. Each galaxy contains myriads of stars.
30. He is one of a small galaxy of Dutch stars on German television.
31. Most galaxy associations are small and have a low density contrast.
32. Our galaxy is so huge that dozens of lesser galaxies scamper about it, like moons orbiting a giant planet.
33. The company has a galaxy of talent.
34. The earth is one of the planets in the galaxy.
35. Is this one galaxy or two?
36. First, we'll find other life forms in our galaxy.
37. Engine-Control how fast you move throughout the galaxy.
38. Nicknamed the Southern Pinwheel, M83 is undergoing more rapid star formation than our own Milky Way galaxy, especially in its nucleus.
39. "The galaxy has an inner clutch of rocky, sort of terrestrial-like planets," Butler says.
40. Galaxy Yintai fiscal dividend securities investment funds to update placement prospectuses.
41. The main thrust of the research will be the study of the early Universe and galaxy formation.
42. We still don't know how many galaxies there are in the universe.
43. The Galaxy consists of 100 billion stars.
44. the idea that we are the culmination of fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution across trillions of galaxies.
45. Upwards of a billion stars in our galaxy have burnt up their internal energy sources, and so can no longer produce the heat a star needs to oppose the inward force of gravity.
46. This has led scientists to speculate on the existence of other galaxies.
47. By measuring the motion of the galaxies in a cluster, astronomers can infer the cluster's mass.
48. In a very real sense light pollution causes us to lose sight of our true place in the universe, to forget the scale of our being, which is best measured against the dimensions of a deep night with the Milky Way — the edge of our galaxy arching overhead.
49. To explain this, they hypothesise that galaxies must contain a great deal of missing matter which cannot be detected.
50. From this you can calculate the total mass in the Galaxy.
51. At least one supernova occurs per decade in our galaxy.
52. Astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy.
53. Almost every fuzzy yellow patch in the above image is an entire galaxy.
54. This law is known to hold true for galaxies at a distance of at least several billion light years.
55. Galactic surveys show that distant galaxies are not as evenly distributed in space as theory predicts.