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- noun Plural form of
protogalaxy .
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Examples
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The ultraviolet radiation pouring out of the stars hits the hydrogen in these protogalaxies and in the neighborhood around them.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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The protogalaxies are still merging and swapping gas which also falls to the centers and just before entering the black holes is ripped to atoms.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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Inside these spiraling and spherical protogalaxies, the hydrogen not fused into stars is pulled toward their centers, getting denser and denser until somehow—no one knows how—gravity wins completely.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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The ultraviolet radiation pouring out of the stars hits the hydrogen in these protogalaxies and in the neighborhood around them.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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Neighboring clouds of gas and small protogalaxies still fall into them, though nothing too large or the delicate spirals disrupt.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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Neighboring clouds of gas and small protogalaxies still fall into them, though nothing too large or the delicate spirals disrupt.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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The protogalaxies are still merging and swapping gas which also falls to the centers and just before entering the black holes is ripped to atoms.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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The ultraviolet radiation pouring out of the stars hits the hydrogen in these protogalaxies and in the neighborhood around them.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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Inside these spiraling and spherical protogalaxies, the hydrogen not fused into stars is pulled toward their centers, getting denser and denser until somehow—no one knows how—gravity wins completely.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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The protogalaxies are still merging and swapping gas which also falls to the centers and just before entering the black holes is ripped to atoms.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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