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a huge physical or conceptual distance
they're a galaxy apart when it comes to politics
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Recent Examples of galaxies
If similar inflow patterns are found in other inactive galaxies, red geysers could become a key model for understanding how galaxies across the universe grow old, and quietly stay that way.
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Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 Jan. 2026
The European Space Agency telescope is designed to make a 3D map of the universe by looking at billions of galaxies up to 10 billion light years away across one third of the sky.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2026
Another possibility is that the unusual objects are star-forming galaxies.
—Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 9 Jan. 2026
Such galaxies are small when compared to our Milky Way, which contains hundreds of billions of stars.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 8 Jan. 2026
However, the image ended up being so deep—and revealed so many galaxies—that some of the individual objects began to merge and become indistinguishable from each other.
—Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2025
And there were no major extragalactic objects, like galaxies or galaxy clusters, located anywhere within this field-of-view.
—Big Think, 9 Apr. 2025
Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 Jan. 2026
The European Space Agency telescope is designed to make a 3D map of the universe by looking at billions of galaxies up to 10 billion light years away across one third of the sky.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2026
Another possibility is that the unusual objects are star-forming galaxies.
—Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 9 Jan. 2026
Such galaxies are small when compared to our Milky Way, which contains hundreds of billions of stars.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 8 Jan. 2026
However, the image ended up being so deep—and revealed so many galaxies—that some of the individual objects began to merge and become indistinguishable from each other.
—Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2025
And there were no major extragalactic objects, like galaxies or galaxy clusters, located anywhere within this field-of-view.
—Big Think, 9 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for galaxies
Noun
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Charlotte’s newest nightlife experience promises the best of both worlds.—
Tanasia Kenney,
Charlotte Observer,
12 Jan. 2026
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Those specifics aside, more stunningly, researchers discovered that these brave, early explorers of new worlds demonstrated a different way of moving than had been previously understood.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The team suggests these blue monsters aren't galaxies at all, but are instead incredibly luminous dark stars that, because of their brightness, are being mistaken for entire galaxies with populations of stars packed into a region no wider than a few hundred light-years.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
15 Jan. 2026
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The beehive is one of the closest clusters to Earth (approximately 600 light-years away) and one of the youngest (around 600 to 700 million years old).—
Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
13 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Galaxies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/galaxies. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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