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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
This is where constellations like Leo, Virgo and Coma Berenices host dozens of faint galaxies — most invisible to the naked eye and small optical-only telescopes, even in excellent conditions.
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Jamie Carter, Space.com, 6 June 2026
Scientists can draw on it to identify and study 100,000 exoplanets, hundreds of millions of galaxies, billions of stars, and rare objects and phenomena — including some that astronomers have never witnessed before.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 June 2026
Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope have found such large black holes within galaxies earlier and earlier in the universe, including the recent discovery of a 50-million-solar-mass black hole seen just 700 million years after the big bang.
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 4 June 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
Jamie Carter, Space.com, 6 June 2026
Scientists can draw on it to identify and study 100,000 exoplanets, hundreds of millions of galaxies, billions of stars, and rare objects and phenomena — including some that astronomers have never witnessed before.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 June 2026
Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope have found such large black holes within galaxies earlier and earlier in the universe, including the recent discovery of a 50-million-solar-mass black hole seen just 700 million years after the big bang.
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 4 June 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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The Sacramento region has been filled with changes in the business and restaurant worlds, with a number of openings and closings this spring.—
Emma Hall,
Sacbee.com,
11 June 2026
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The gulf between their two worlds is wide, and Jude straddles it with wide-ranging intellect and his characteristic impish wit, while also telling a surprisingly heartfelt story about the lengths to which a mother will go for love.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
11 June 2026
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This work was done using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, which can see tens of millions of light-years into the universe while still managing to capture incredible details of objects like M88.—
Chelsea Gohd,
Space.com,
10 June 2026
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This dazzling celestial object, dubbed the Crystal Ball Nebula, lies about 1,500 light-years from Earth in the Taurus constellation.—
Daniel Wine,
CNN Money,
9 June 2026
Cite this Entry
“Galaxies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/galaxies. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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