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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
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.
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Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026
In fact, the gravitational influence of dark matter is crucial as the gravity of the visible matter in galaxies alone isn't sufficient to hold them together.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Apr. 2026
To tune in to distant galaxies and other faraway objects, astronomers would need an antenna somewhere with no atmosphere that also would be somehow protected from all our terrestrial chatter.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2026
There are billions of galaxies in the universe and each has billions of stars, so the likelihood life developed elsewhere is fairly high, according to University of Michigan Astronomy Professor Edwin Bergin, who teaches about looking for life elsewhere.
—ABC News, 4 Apr. 2026
Students learn about astronomy – understanding constellations, planets, stars, galaxies and the expanding universe – all while playing this video game.
—Jane Charlton, The Conversation, 1 Apr. 2026
Meanwhile, on grander scales, older stars across the Universe run out of fuel and die, new episodes of star-formation are triggered, and the Universe continues to expand, driving individual galaxies, groups of galaxies, and clusters of galaxies mutually apart, faster and faster, as time goes on.
—Big Think, 31 Mar. 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
Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026
In fact, the gravitational influence of dark matter is crucial as the gravity of the visible matter in galaxies alone isn't sufficient to hold them together.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Apr. 2026
To tune in to distant galaxies and other faraway objects, astronomers would need an antenna somewhere with no atmosphere that also would be somehow protected from all our terrestrial chatter.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2026
There are billions of galaxies in the universe and each has billions of stars, so the likelihood life developed elsewhere is fairly high, according to University of Michigan Astronomy Professor Edwin Bergin, who teaches about looking for life elsewhere.
—ABC News, 4 Apr. 2026
Students learn about astronomy – understanding constellations, planets, stars, galaxies and the expanding universe – all while playing this video game.
—Jane Charlton, The Conversation, 1 Apr. 2026
Meanwhile, on grander scales, older stars across the Universe run out of fuel and die, new episodes of star-formation are triggered, and the Universe continues to expand, driving individual galaxies, groups of galaxies, and clusters of galaxies mutually apart, faster and faster, as time goes on.
—Big Think, 31 Mar. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for galaxies
Noun
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Cancer June 21 – July 22 Cancer, your care can bridge two worlds gracefully.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Apr. 2026
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As folks from across the health, tech, and business worlds were quick to point out online, at the time the NYT article was published, Medvi was being marketed on social media by a trove of Meta accounts featuring clearly fake doctors.—
Maggie Harrison Dupré,
Futurism,
9 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The weak force is so weak, however, that a neutrino could travel through light-years of lead without altering a single atom.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Apr. 2026
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The pink cloud at the center of the shot is the Homunculus Nebula, a vast glowing structure of interstellar dust and gas 7,500 light-years from Earth, according to NASA, created in the wake of a cataclysmic eruption of the double star system Eta Carinae.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
8 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Galaxies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/galaxies. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.
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