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  • noun Plural form of galaxy.

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Examples

  • Furthermore, what we call "galaxies" are merely the peaks of this continuous matter distribution, the researchers explained.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2012

  • An analysis by Chas Egan of the Australian National University in Canberra and Charles Lineweaver of the University of New South Wales in Sydney indicates that the collective entropy of all the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies is about 100 times higher than previously calculated.

    Time To Hit the Panic Button: Universe Ending Faster Than Expected 2009

  • The first is to detect molecules such as CO (carbon monoxide) in galaxies up to redshift (z) of 3 (that's when the universe was just 2 billion years old!) in under 24 hours of observation.

    Archive 2009-01-06 Nicole 2009

  • The first is to detect molecules such as CO (carbon monoxide) in galaxies up to redshift (z) of 3 (that's when the universe was just 2 billion years old!) in under 24 hours of observation.

    URSI Update #1 Nicole 2009

  • Since its launch last June, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a new class of pulsars, probed gamma-ray bursts and watched flaring jets in galaxies billions of light-years away.

    Tew's Day! yuki_onna 2009

  • Thank you for, a couple of weeks ago, showing us those images of other galaxies from the Hubble space telescope.

    Evening Buzz: John Edwards’ Love Child? 2009

  • This estimate can then be compared to the amount of visible matter (stars and dust) and it turns out that there isn't enough visible stuff in galaxies to account for the observed rotation speeds of the stars.

    Dark Matter Can Enlighten Minds 2008

  • This estimate can then be compared to the amount of visible matter (stars and dust) and it turns out that there isn't enough visible stuff in galaxies to account for the observed rotation speeds of the stars.

    Dark Matter Can Enlighten Minds 2008

  • A huge volume of space that includes the Milky Way and super-clusters of galaxies is flowing towards a mysterious, gigantic unseen mass named mass astronomers have dubbed “The Great Attractor,” some 250 million light years from our Solar System.

    The ‘Great Attractor’: Exactly What is the Milky Way (and Neighbors) Speeding Towards at 14 Million Miles Per Hour? | Disinformation 2008

  • That distance means the light from these galaxies is nine billion years old, so they are images of the past.

    Supernovae: Not What They Used to Be | Impact Lab 2007

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