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Recent Examples of galaxies
The universe is overwhelmingly made of matter, which is responsible for visible structures ranging from atoms to galaxies, and quarks to quasars.
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Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025
This behavior will lead to a spectrum of temperature imperfections in the Big Bang’s leftover glow, and eventually will form the seeds of structure that grow into stars, galaxies, and the cosmic web.
—Big Think, 23 Oct. 2025
Its images have illuminated how galaxies form, evolve and recycle their material through generations of star birth and death.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 20 Oct. 2025
For active galaxies, the unified model does a good job at explaining the broad differences between the classes of galaxies observed.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
Astronomers once thought the odd radio circles might be the throats of wormholes, shockwaves from black hole collisions or merging galaxies, or powerful jets pumping out energetic particles.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
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
Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025
This behavior will lead to a spectrum of temperature imperfections in the Big Bang’s leftover glow, and eventually will form the seeds of structure that grow into stars, galaxies, and the cosmic web.
—Big Think, 23 Oct. 2025
Its images have illuminated how galaxies form, evolve and recycle their material through generations of star birth and death.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 20 Oct. 2025
For active galaxies, the unified model does a good job at explaining the broad differences between the classes of galaxies observed.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
Astronomers once thought the odd radio circles might be the throats of wormholes, shockwaves from black hole collisions or merging galaxies, or powerful jets pumping out energetic particles.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
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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By replicating the visual fidelity of reality, retina E-paper brings science closer to creating virtual worlds that the human eye cannot distinguish from the real one.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
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Welcome to Derry Stephen King's worlds collide with HBO's new horror series, a prequel to the It films.—
EW Staff,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The bubble-like form of the Garlic Nebula lies within the Milky Way some 9,132 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Located about 162 light-years away from Earth, β CMi is encompassed by a disk of hydrogen moving incredibly fast.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Galaxies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/galaxies. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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