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a huge physical or conceptual distance
they're a galaxy apart when it comes to politics
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However, the image ended up being so deep—and revealed so many galaxies—that some of the individual objects began to merge and become indistinguishable from each other.
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Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2025
As one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way, about 210,000 light years away according to NASA, the SMC allowed the research team to identify and track roughly 7,000 massive stars within it.
—Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2025
The technique allowed the team to not only see some of the dustiest galaxies, where most of the cosmos' new stars form, but also to track the contribution that galaxies of different brightness make to the total energy budget of the universe.
—Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2025
Researchers noticed a small sample of these galaxies with unusual-looking star clusters at their centers.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Apr. 2025
The discovery could help scientists settle a long-running debate concerning how the centers of these dwarf galaxies are forged.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Apr. 2025
This telescope would be great for people who enjoy photographing the moon's phases, the sun, galaxies and star clusters, but not for observing planets.
—Tantse Walter, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2025
And there were no major extragalactic objects, like galaxies or galaxy clusters, located anywhere within this field-of-view.
—Big Think, 9 Apr. 2025
But is this truly reflective of how these galaxies (and the background of these galaxies) really appear?
—Big Think, 9 Apr. 2025
Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2025
As one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way, about 210,000 light years away according to NASA, the SMC allowed the research team to identify and track roughly 7,000 massive stars within it.
—Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2025
The technique allowed the team to not only see some of the dustiest galaxies, where most of the cosmos' new stars form, but also to track the contribution that galaxies of different brightness make to the total energy budget of the universe.
—Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2025
Researchers noticed a small sample of these galaxies with unusual-looking star clusters at their centers.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Apr. 2025
The discovery could help scientists settle a long-running debate concerning how the centers of these dwarf galaxies are forged.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Apr. 2025
This telescope would be great for people who enjoy photographing the moon's phases, the sun, galaxies and star clusters, but not for observing planets.
—Tantse Walter, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2025
And there were no major extragalactic objects, like galaxies or galaxy clusters, located anywhere within this field-of-view.
—Big Think, 9 Apr. 2025
But is this truly reflective of how these galaxies (and the background of these galaxies) really appear?
—Big Think, 9 Apr. 2025
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“Galaxies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/galaxies. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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