galactic concentration of stars

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• Milky Way Galaxy — Large spiral galaxy (roughly 150,000 light years in diameter) that contains Earth s solar system. It includes the multitude of stars whose light is seen as the Milky Way, the irregular luminous band that encircles the sky defining the plane of… …   Universalium

• star — starless, adj. /stahr/, n., adj., v., starred, starring. n. 1. any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night. 2. Astron. any of the large, self luminous, heavenly bodies, as the sun, Polaris,… …   Universalium

• Spiral galaxy — A spiral galaxy is a galaxy belonging to one of the three main classes of galaxy originally described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work “The Realm of the Nebulae” [cite book |last=Hubble |first=E. P. |authorlink=Edwin Hubble |title=The Realm of… …   Wikipedia

• Galaxy morphological classification — Artist s concept illustrating bulge no bulge spiral galaxies. Galaxy morphological classification is a system used by astronomers to divide galaxies into groups based on their visual appearance. There are several schemes in use by which galaxies… …   Wikipedia

• Andromeda Galaxy — The Andromeda Galax …   Wikipedia

• Eta Corvi — η Corvi An artists conception of many Kuiper Belt objects and comets flying through the Eta Corvi system and producing a Late Heavy Bombardment. Observation data Epoch J2000.0      Equinox J2000.0 (ICRS)… …   Wikipedia

• Hubble sequence — The Hubble sequence is a morphological classification scheme for galaxies invented by Edwin Hubble in 1936.cite book |last=Hubble |first=E. P. |authorlink=Edwin Hubble |title=The Realm of the Nebulae |year=1936 |publisher=Yale University Press… …   Wikipedia

• NGC 3201 — by Hubble Space Telescope; 3.5′ view Credit: NASA/STScI/WikiSky Observation data (J2000 epoch) …   Wikipedia

• ga|lac|tic — «guh LAK tihk», adjective. 1. of or having to do with the Milky Way or with other galaxies: »It is because of the shape of the galaxy that we see the Milky Way, which is the concentration of stars as we look out toward the edge, in the galactic… …   Useful english dictionary

• Open cluster — Galactic cluster redirects here. See also galaxy groups and clusters NGC 265, an open star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud An open cluster is a group of up to a few thousand stars that were formed from the same giant molecular cloud and… …   Wikipedia

• cosmos — /koz meuhs, mohs/, n., pl. cosmos, cosmoses for 2, 4. 1. the world or universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious system. 2. a complete, orderly, harmonious system. 3. order; harmony. 4. any composite plant of the genus Cosmos, of tropical… …   Universalium