galaxy 
gal·axy (gal′ək sē)
noun pl. -·ax·ies
- the Milky Way: often with the
- a large, independent system of stars, typically containing millions to hundreds of billions of stars: the four classes of galaxies are spiral, barred spiral, elliptical, or irregular, depending on their shape
- an assembly of brilliant or famous people
- a brilliant array of things
Etymology: ME galaxie < LL galaxias < Gr, Milky Way < gala, milk: see galactic
galaxy
n.
A large system of stars
cosmic system, star cluster, nebula, Milky Way; see constellation, universe.Any brilliant group, as of persons
assemblage of celebrities, brilliant company, elite, pleiad; see gathering.
Converse of object
- collide: The stars may be flung out from the colliding galaxies to form long arcs.
- interact: This interacting galaxy is of the sort believed to be involved in galaxy formation.
Preposition: at
- redshifts: Told me that the lensing cross-section is dominated by massive elliptical galaxies at redshifts 0.3 " Yes.
- redshift: Questions we are now trying to answer include: Are the dusty companion galaxies at the same redshift as the QSO?
Adjective modifier
- elliptical: Measuring surface brightness profiles in elliptical galaxies Click here to see the project Surface brightness of galaxies for further information.
- distant: For more distant galaxies, we need objects even brighter than Cepheids.
- star-forming: The field should therefore also display an over density of star-forming galaxies which the SCUBA images reveal to be the case.
- faint: These celestial blood hounds have an impressive tally of celestial pray with countless faint galaxies in their kennel.
- nearby: In 1987 an extraordinary astronomical event took place - the light from an exploded star in a nearby galaxy was seen from Earth.
- irregular: All these characteristics make dwarf irregular galaxies the ideal local analogs to young galaxies from the early universe.
Modifies a noun
- redshifts: In the last part of the session we got them measuring galaxy redshifts using some real spectra and plotting a graph of their results.
- cluster: Blanchard says, " There were fewer galaxy clusters in the past.
Noun used with modifier
- starburst: We chose to observe NGC 253, which at a distance of 10 million light years is the nearest starburst spiral galaxy.
- spiral: NGC 300 is a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way.
- early-type: BL Lac hosts and radio galaxies seem to lie on the same Fundamental Plane as normal early-type galaxies.
- high-redshift: The stellar populations in young high-redshift galaxies are of great interest, and can contain very old stars [ 13 ] .
- dwarf: At present he is working on Local Group dwarf galaxies.
- redshift: The dark matter distribution in high redshift galaxies via gravitational lensing.
Preposition: in
Thus did they live:Thus did they love, Repeating only joys above; And Angels were, but with clothes on, Which they would put off cheerfully, To bathe them in the galaxy, Then gird them with the Heavenly zone.
Our sun is one of100 billion stars in our galaxy.Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe.It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.
For some time I watch the coming of the night Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western world by air pollution and the glare of artificial light; for my children's children, the power, peace and healing of the night will be obliterated.
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