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# galaxy

noun (a galaxy, galaxies; the Galaxy = the Milky Way)

«galaxy» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A galaxy is a huge group of billions of stars, gas and dust held together by gravity. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galaxy/#m1)
2. Our galaxy is called the Milky Way; the Sun is one of its stars. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galaxy/#m2)
3. Informally, «a galaxy of» means a large group of famous or bright people or things. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galaxy/#m3)

### In the lessons

In science lessons we learn that the Earth orbits the Sun, the Sun is a star in the Milky Way galaxy, and the universe holds billions of galaxies. Galaxies can be spiral, elliptical or irregular. On a dark night away from city lights you can see the Milky Way as a pale band across the sky. Phrases: «spiral galaxy», «our galaxy», «the Milky Way galaxy», «a galaxy far, far away».

### Examples

- The Sun is one star in the Milky Way galaxy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galaxy/#x1)
- There are billions of galaxies in the universe. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galaxy/#x2)
- The Andromeda Galaxy is our nearest big neighbour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galaxy/#x3)
- A spiral galaxy looks like a whirlpool of stars. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galaxy/#x4)
- Light from distant galaxies takes millions of years to reach us. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galaxy/#x5)
- On a dark night we saw our galaxy as a misty band. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galaxy/#x6)
- The film was set in a faraway galaxy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galaxy/#x7)
- The show had a galaxy of stars. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galaxy/#x8)

### Note

Plural: galaxies (y → ies). Galaxy ≠ solar system: a solar system is one star with its planets; a galaxy has billions of stars. Universe is everything, including all galaxies. Numbers in astronomy are enormous: the Milky Way has about 100–400 billion stars.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «galaxy» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galaxy/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«galaxy» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/galaxy.html) on Mova free.