Noun, : a galaxy of opera stars. From Dictionary.com.
Still, I remain galaxies from satisfied with this one. From Wordnik.com. [April 2006] Reference
The radiation from such radio galaxies is studied using large radio-telescopes. From Wordnik.com. [Accelerators and Nobel Laureates] Reference
The invisible dark matter at the centre of galaxies is not as dense as we would expect - and now we know why. From Wordnik.com. [Out of the soylent planet] Reference
That distance means the light from these galaxies is nine billion years old, so they are images of the past. From Wordnik.com. [Supernovae: Not What They Used to Be | Impact Lab] Reference
Thank you for, a couple of weeks ago, showing us those images of other galaxies from the Hubble space telescope. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Buzz: John Edwards’ Love Child?] Reference
Stars are worlds unto themselves containing galaxies within galaxies, exhibiting the astonishing world of space. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference
The galaxies are the building blocks of the Universe. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
The movie doesn’t point out that twin galaxies all but worship billy. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Billy Mitchell kinda pissed me off…] Reference
Stars are formed from the gas and dust clouds which are present in galaxies. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Physics 1983 - Presentation Speech] Reference
The galaxies are the faintest and reddest objects seen in a new image released by the scientists. From Wordnik.com. [Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news] Reference
An alternative explanation proposes that the galaxies are the result of a recent merger between two smaller galaxies. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"This could be the first of a series of further discoveries shedding light on the origin of bulges in galaxies, which is still hotly debated," concludes Ferraro. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
The blue would suggest the "galaxies" are rushing toward a Big Crunch, which isn't terribly likely. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
Talks on Tunguska, Einstein, dust in galaxies. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
"The galaxies are the building blocks of the Universe. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
It was only in the 1920s and 30s that astronomers agreed among themselves that "galaxies" must be separated by vast distances. From Wordnik.com. [Technology Review RSS Feeds] Reference
In particular, dark energy doesn’t accumulate in dense regions such as galaxies or clusters — it’s the same everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Matter Exists] Reference
SIGOURNEY WEAVER has mowed down galaxies full of aliens. From Wordnik.com. [Sigourney In A Durang Harangue] Reference
"Some large fraction of the images in it are the first galaxies.". From Wordnik.com. [A Heavenly Host] Reference
After I graduated from Juilliard, I started creating my own mini-galaxies. From Wordnik.com. [How I Got There] Reference
Today, researchers are also turning to the vast and unexplored galaxies of the ocean. From Wordnik.com. [PHARMACY ISLAND] Reference
Hubble spied 14 primeval galaxies that seem to be the oldest normal galaxies ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [Postcards From The Edge] Reference
There are shards, fragments and objects shaped like tadpoles in a rich cluster of galaxies. From Wordnik.com. [Postcards From The Edge] Reference
Expanding fireball: The ripples are too huge to have grown into the individual galaxies seen today. From Wordnik.com. ['The Handwriting Of God'] Reference
Gravity draws matter to denser regions, which act like seeds for galaxies and clusters of galaxies. 4. From Wordnik.com. ['The Handwriting Of God'] Reference
There is, in fact, still no evidence to suggest that humankind is not alone among billions of galaxies. From Wordnik.com. [Come In, Mars] Reference
"We are clearly seeing some of the galaxies as they were more than 10 billion years ago," says Williams. From Wordnik.com. [A Heavenly Host] Reference
When compared with shots of galaxies 4 billion and 7 billion years older, they show that galaxies evolve. From Wordnik.com. [Postcards From The Edge] Reference
Put another way, Hubble is seeing galaxies as they were when the universe was a 2-billion-year-old stripling. From Wordnik.com. [Postcards From The Edge] Reference
Based on how galaxies rotate, astronomers infer that there is something like 10 times more matter in them than can be seen. From Wordnik.com. [A Heavenly Host] Reference
If energy and matter are spread across the heavens so evenly, how could particles ever have clumped together into galaxies?. From Wordnik.com. ['The Handwriting Of God'] Reference
Up to 5 billion years later, galaxies begin to form, coalescing around the original, random fluctuations the galactic seeds. From Wordnik.com. ['The Handwriting Of God'] Reference
It is those connections -- more than the number of galaxies in the known universe -- that give the brain its unrivaled powers. From Wordnik.com. [Your Child's Brain] Reference
For a few seconds, the astronomers concluded, the burst was as bright as all the other stars and galaxies in the universe combined. From Wordnik.com. [A Very Big Bang] Reference
Each group became set in its view of how to measure distances to galaxies and stars, and how to measure the speed of a receding galaxy. From Wordnik.com. [The Science Wars] Reference
PHYSICSThe Light Fantastic Remember how we can't colonize other galaxies because nothing can ever travel faster than the speed of light?. From Wordnik.com. [Science Notes] Reference
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