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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 dark-sky park, certified by light pollution authority DarkSky International, has incredibly inky nightscapes that help the stars, galaxies, and planets pop.
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Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2025
Flares such as this one reveal the presence of incredibly large stars near the hearts of galaxies and shed light on the very structure of galaxies, Ford said.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
As if dark energy weren't already mysterious and baffling enough, new research suggests that this unknown force may not be driving galaxies apart at an accelerating rate anymore.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 6 Nov. 2025
In their new study, however, Lee and colleagues have presented evidence based on a large study of some 300 galaxies that suggests a flaw in this assumption.
—Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
Testing two theories in the lab The research was specifically designed to investigate a key mystery surrounding blazars, which are active galaxies with supermassive black holes launching particle jets.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
In the early 2010s, Courtois was part of the team that discovered and described the Laniakea supercluster of galaxies to which our Milky Way belongs.
—Caroline Carlson, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
That also might suggest that the inhabitants of those galaxies should find those same laws of physics.
—Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2025
Flares such as this one reveal the presence of incredibly large stars near the hearts of galaxies and shed light on the very structure of galaxies, Ford said.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
As if dark energy weren't already mysterious and baffling enough, new research suggests that this unknown force may not be driving galaxies apart at an accelerating rate anymore.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 6 Nov. 2025
In their new study, however, Lee and colleagues have presented evidence based on a large study of some 300 galaxies that suggests a flaw in this assumption.
—Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
Testing two theories in the lab The research was specifically designed to investigate a key mystery surrounding blazars, which are active galaxies with supermassive black holes launching particle jets.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
In the early 2010s, Courtois was part of the team that discovered and described the Laniakea supercluster of galaxies to which our Milky Way belongs.
—Caroline Carlson, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
That also might suggest that the inhabitants of those galaxies should find those same laws of physics.
—Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for galaxies
Noun
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But beyond the text on his screen there are entire worlds—of history, philosophy, and maybe even of love—in the stories and people he and AI conjure.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Their findings show that planets are far less common around stars in this late stage of life, suggesting that many close-orbiting worlds are likely destroyed as their stars expand, offering strong observational evidence of this dramatic planetary demise.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Just this year another team of scientists used Gaia data to look at 17,000 young stars—which tend to form right in the middle of the galaxy’s disk—and 3,400 Cepheid variables in a region of the Milky Way tens of thousands of light-years across.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
6 Nov. 2025
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Water bodies light-years away hold volumes of water trillions of times greater than Earth’s oceans.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Galaxies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/galaxies. Accessed 23 Nov. 2025.
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