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Not What You Meant?  There are 32 definitions for Galaxy.  Also try: Galactic halo or Cosmic storm or Galaxie or Galactica.

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Galaxy

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Galaxy Summary
1,064 words, approx. 4 pages
Galaxies are composed of stars in various stages of evolution, planets, glowing nebulae, dust, gas, and empty space. The galaxy with which we are most familiar is our own Milky Way. Early Greeks looked up into the starry sky and saw a glowing band of...
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Galaxies Summary
2,401 words, approx. 8 pages
Galaxies are collections of stars, gas, and dust, combined with some unknown form of dark matter, all bound together by gravity. The visible parts come in a variety of sizes, ranging from a few thousand light years with a billion stars, to 100,000...
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Galaxy Information
7,863 words, approx. 26 pages
A galaxy (from the Greek root galaxias {γαλαξίας}, meaning "milky", a reference to the Milky Way) is a massive, gravitationally bound system consisting of stars, an interstellar medium of gas and dust, and dark matter.[1][2] Typical galaxies...


News and Journals
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Science News for Kids
Average galaxies.
12/19/2007: 433 words, approx. 1 pages
Not everything in space is spectacular, dramatic, or exploding with light. For example, astronomers recently found 27 distant galaxies that are small and faint. Although far from flashy, the newly discovered galaxies are exciting to scientists because they might represent building blocks that...
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The Stranger
Young Galaxy
06/07/2007: 309 words, approx. 1 pages
YOUNG GALAXY Young Galaxy (Arts and Crafts) *** Like other bands that have spun off from the orbit of the Montreal record label Arts and Crafts (Stars, Broken Social Scene, the Dears, etc.), Young Galaxy piles up boy/girl harmonies, warm...
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AP News
Galaxy hires Gullit
11/9/2007: 383 words, approx. 1 pages
Ruud Gullit, once one of the best soccer players in the world, has been hired to coach the Los Angeles Galaxy.The 45-year-old Dutchman will succeed Frank Yallop, who quit as coach of the David Beckham-led Galaxy on Monday to return to San Jose for a...
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AP News
Scientists discover "teenager galaxies"
11/28/2007: 625 words, approx. 2 pages
Young galaxies, so faint that scientists struggled to prove they were there at all, have been discovered by aiming two of the world's most powerful telescopes at a single patch of sky for nearly 100 hours.An international group of researchers has identified 27 pre-galactic fragments,...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Galaxies
400 words, approx. 1 pages
Nearly all the matter in the universe is concentrated in galaxies. A galaxy is a gigantic mass of stars held together by gravity.


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