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单词 satellite galaxy
释义

satellite galaxy

noun

plural satellite galaxies
: a galaxy that is bound by the gravitational field of a larger galaxy and that is often too small to have a defined shape
Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way visible in the Southern Hemisphere, this exploding star was a mere 170,00 light years away. Lavinia Edmunds et al.

Word History

First Known Use

1904, in the meaning defined above

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