galaxy
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- n a splendid assemblage (especially of famous people)
- n tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall
- n (astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust
`extragalactic nebula' is a former name for `galaxy'
- Though relatively few earthlings are aware of it, they are embedded in a huge, disk-shaped spiral galaxy.
- Hubble went on to trump even that achievement by showing that this galaxy-studded cosmos is expanding inflating majestically like an unimaginably gigantic balloon a finding .
- A clutch of recent studies reveal more about our home galaxy than scientists previously knew.