Galaxy
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Etymology
From a Greek word meaning "milk", for the name given to the galaxy we live in, which seen in the night sky from the earth's viewpoint forms a "milky way" or "road of milk" as the spiral arm of the galaxy forms a streak we can faintly see.
Noun
galaxy (Plural: galaxies)
- A collection of billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. of which there are billions in the known universe. They usually form spiral or elliptical shapes likely due to a central gravity well (i.e. giant black hole), but some form irregular shapes (especially if they are broken away from another galaxy).
- Our Milky Way galaxy
Translations
- Catalan: galàxia (1), Via Làctia (2)
- Czech: galaxie f (1), Mléčná dráha f (2)
- Danish: galakse (1), Mælkevejen (2)
- Dutch: sterrenstelsel n (1), melkweg m (2)
- Esperanto: galaksio (1, 2), laktovojo (2)
- Finnish: galaksi (1), Linnunrata (2)
- French: galaxie f (1); Voie Lactée f (2)
- German: Galaxie f (1), Milchstraße f (2)
- Greek: galaxia
- Indonesian: galaksi (1), Bimasakti / Bima Sakti (2)
- Interlingua: galaxia (1); Via Lactee (2)
- Italian: galassia f (1)
- Latin: galactia f, orbis lacteus m
- Japanese: 銀河 (ぎんが, gin-ga) (1), 銀河系 (ぎんがけい, gin-ga-kei) / 天の川 (あまのがわ, amanogawa) (2)
- Persian: كهكشان (kahkeshan) (1), راه شیری (rahe shiri) (2)
- Polish: galaktyka f(1), Droga Mleczna f (2)
- Portuguese: galáxia f (1); Via Láctea f (2)
- Romanian: galaxie f (1); Calea Lactee f (2)
- Russian: галактика galaktika (1), Млечный путь(2)
- Spanish: galaxia (1), Via Lactea (2)
- Swedish: galax (1), Vintergatan (2)
- Tupinambá: Tapi'irapé (2) (lit. "tapir's way")
- Welsh: galaeth m/f
Related words
- galactic
- extragalactic
Phrases
- A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ...
