island universe
Example Sentences
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Andromeda was discovered to be another island universe, another spiral galaxy almost identical to our own, and one of the more than 100 billion other galaxies that, we now know, exist in our observable universe.
From Scientific American • Feb. 10, 2012
Wilson Observatory in California reported discovery and observation of a super-nova in the distant island universe NGC 4273.
From Time Magazine Archive
He just happened to catch the little planet, in fact, while he was photographing an island universe of stars hundreds of millions of light years from Earth.*
From Time Magazine Archive
They were at work calculating some problems that Arcot had suggested in connection with the velocities of motion that had been observed in the stars at the edge of the island universe they were approaching.
From Islands of Space by Campbell, John Wood
The world of Xollar, where you now are, is a planet in the island universe known to your astronomers as the Great Nebula of Andromeda.
From Zehru of Xollar by Wells, Hal K.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
