Glossary · term
Galaxy
Astronomy
- Aliases
- galaxies, galactic
- Domain
- Astronomy
Definition
A gravitationally bound system of stars, gas, dust and dark matter — from dwarfs of a few million stars to giants of a trillion. The Milky Way is a barred spiral roughly 100,000 light-years across.
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