Galaxy

id: galaxy-168-5341916
title: Galaxy
text: A galaxy is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter bound together by gravity. The word is derived from the Greek galaxias (γαλαξίας), literally 'milky', a reference to the Milky Way galaxy that contains the Solar System. Galaxies, averaging an estimated 100 million stars, range in size from dwarfs with less than a thousand stars, to the largest galaxies known – supergiants with one hundred trillion stars, each orbiting its galaxy's center of mass. Most of th
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category slug: encyclopedia
description: Large gravitationally bound system of stars and interstellar matter
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy
date created: 2001-09-15T23:34:31Z
date modified: 2024-08-30T20:46:15Z
main entity: {"identifier":"Q318","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q318"}
image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/NGC_4414_%28NASA-med%29.jpg","width":1730,"height":1428}
fields total: 13
integrity: 16

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