galaxy

[US]/ˈɡæləksi/
[UK]/ˈɡæləksi/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.a system of stars, typically containing billions of stars, along with gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction;a group of outstanding individuals

Phrases & Collocations

Milky Way galaxy

Andromeda galaxy

galaxy securities

spiral galaxy

galaxy cluster

galaxy hotel

Example Sentences

a galaxy of theatrical performers.

a galaxy of boundless young talent.

The company has a galaxy of talent.

Each galaxy contains myriads of stars.

Explanation: Across the heart of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster lies a string of galaxies known as Markarian's Chain.

Quasars are the highly energetic cores of distant galaxies.

NGC 1512 is a barred spiral galaxy in the southern constellation of Horologium.

Markarian 273 is a galaxy with a bizarre structure that somewhat resembles a toothbrush.

We still don't know how many galaxies there are in the universe.

A galaxy of twinkling stars matched the thousands of sparkling city lights.

A satellite galaxy of our Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud is wonder of the southern sky, named for 16th century Portuguese circumnavigator Ferdinand Magellan.

Elasticated black fishnet, encrusted with a galaxy of Olive crystals, between bat-tipped, pewter bars.

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

Real-world Examples

Spiral galaxies are a common galaxy type.

Source: VOA Slow English Technology

Laniakea encompasses 100,000 galaxies stretched out over 500 million light-years.

Source: Science in 60 Seconds Listening Collection September 2014

The galaxy's most ambitious, least successful con artists.

Source: Rick and Morty Season 1 (Bilingual)

It established the galaxy as a neutrino source.

Source: VOA Slow English Technology

It will take millennia to reach the target galaxy.

Source: 21st Century English Newspaper

Within the universe there are a hundred billion galaxies.

Source: BBC documentary "The Mystery of the Sun"

Scientists have also discovered other galaxies in the universe.

Source: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Junior Middle School English

We live in a galaxy called the Milky Way.

Source: CNN 10 Student English of the Month

Is gonna use it to take over the galaxy.

Source: Rick and Morty Season 2 (Bilingual)

We've been able to see very distant galaxies with Hubble.

Source: Vox opinion

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