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galaxy

[gal-uhk-see] / ˈgæl ək si /


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A young man from Tatooine sets out to find his malfunctioning droid and ends up saving the galaxy.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

Which is the narrative mission of museums in every galaxy.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

Another guest gushed about something more romantic: Aschenbrenner’s promise to buy his wife a galaxy.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

"When we look at how stars orbit within galaxies or how galaxies move within galaxy clusters, some appear to be traveling way too fast for the amount of visible matter they contain."

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

Fariba Bahrami had the kindest eyes in the entire galaxy.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

Many of the galaxies are also located at relatively high redshifts, meaning they are observed at large cosmic distances.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

Maps showing spectral ages across individual galaxies also revealed that their radio lobes continue changing after the jets have switched off.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

As the flow of gas from the cosmic web becomes weaker and gas densities decrease, galaxies may become less efficient at converting HI into molecular hydrogen.

From Science Daily Sep. 3, 2026

The Jodrell Bank site was first established in 1945 and pioneered radio astronomy and the study of galaxies beyond our own.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

The form and abundance of the galaxies have a story to tell us of ancient events on the largest possible scale, a story we are just beginning to read.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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