Synonyms for galaxy
ˈgæl ək sigal·axy

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1. Galaxynoun

   Synonyms:
   Local Galaxy, Milky Way, Milky Way Galaxy

2. galaxynoun

   the Milky Way Galaxy, from when it was thought the Universe (our universe) had only one galaxy

   Synonyms:
   Milky Way Galaxy, Milky Way, Local Galaxy

3. galaxynoun

   Synonyms:
   G

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1. galaxynoun

   a splendid assemblage (especially of famous people)

   Synonyms:
   galax, coltsfoot, beetleweed, wandflower, extragalactic nebula

2. galax, galaxy, wandflower, beetleweed, coltsfoot, Galax urceolatanoun

   tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall

   Synonyms:
   galax, coltsfoot, beetleweed, wandflower, extragalactic nebula

3. galaxy, extragalactic nebulanoun

   (astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust

   "`extragalactic nebula' is a former name for `galaxy'"

   Synonyms:
   galax, coltsfoot, beetleweed, wandflower, extragalactic nebula

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1. intragalactic

   it’s great

   Submitted by anonymous on February 24, 2020  

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1. galaxynoun

   Synonyms:
   milky way

2. galaxynoun

   Synonyms:
   splendid assemblage

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1. List of paraphrases for "galaxy":

   galaxie, galactic

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1. Bob Iger:

   We wanted to create something deeply immersive, you actually walk through this land and you feel like you are on the outer edge of the galaxy.

2. Geoffrey Marcy:

   If the Milky Way actually has other intelligent species sending their spacecraft across the galaxy to settle around other stars on other planets, they might communicate using lasers, there could be a galactic Internet not borne by copper wires, not borne by fiber optics, but carried by laser beams crisscrossing the galaxy.

3. Philipp Heck:

   With this study, we have directly determined the lifetimes of stardust. We hope this will be picked up and studied so that people can use this as input for models of the whole galactic life cycle, it's so exciting to look at the history of our galaxy. Stardust is the oldest material to reach Earth, and from it, we can learn about our parent stars, the origin of the carbon in our bodies [ and ] the origin of the oxygen we breathe. With stardust, we can trace that material back to the time before the sun.

4. Joel Leja:

   The revelation that massive galaxy formation began extremely early in the history of the universe upends what many of us had thought was settled science, we’ve been informally calling these objects ‘universe breakers’ — and they have been living up to their name so far.

5. Professor Brown:

   For decades radio interferometry has been done at centimetre wavelengths using telescopes spread across continents, however, if you do the same observations at millimetre wavelengths then you canproduce images with better resolution, and see (in silhouette) the black hole at the centre of our galaxy.