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Recent Examples of galaxies
In Rubin’s first year alone, scientists expect the observatory to find 1 million undiscovered asteroids — as many as have been documented in the previous 200 years of human history — as well as thousands of comets and billions of stars and galaxies.
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Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2026
And Rubin will discover much more than TNOs, too, by virtue of its emphasis on time-domain astronomy—the study of objects such as asteroids, novae, supernovae and active galaxies that move and vary in brightness.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
This is the only great cloud of galaxies that is available to the average amateur.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 15 May 2026
Looking for heavy elements Heavy elements are forged in stars and released in powerful supernova explosions within galaxies.
—Lisa Kewley, The Conversation, 14 May 2026
And there are billions of galaxies.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 8 May 2026
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
And there were no major extragalactic objects, like galaxies or galaxy clusters, located anywhere within this field-of-view.
—Big Think, 9 Apr. 2025
Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2026
And Rubin will discover much more than TNOs, too, by virtue of its emphasis on time-domain astronomy—the study of objects such as asteroids, novae, supernovae and active galaxies that move and vary in brightness.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
This is the only great cloud of galaxies that is available to the average amateur.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 15 May 2026
Looking for heavy elements Heavy elements are forged in stars and released in powerful supernova explosions within galaxies.
—Lisa Kewley, The Conversation, 14 May 2026
And there are billions of galaxies.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 8 May 2026
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
And there were no major extragalactic objects, like galaxies or galaxy clusters, located anywhere within this field-of-view.
—Big Think, 9 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for galaxies
Noun
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Studios global rights to develop characters and worlds from Gripp’s full catalog.—
Diana Lodderhose,
Deadline,
14 May 2026
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Parents may not need the nightly news to remind them to locate their children anymore — there are apps for that now — but there are many ways for kids to feel unmoored, whether in analog or digital worlds.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2026
Noun
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The spiral stretches nearly 2 million light-years from the cluster's center.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
20 May 2026
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Located 100 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Eridanus, the galaxy, called NGC 1266, is what’s known as a lenticular galaxy.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
19 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Galaxies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/galaxies. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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