distant galaxy

collocation in English

meaningsofdistantandgalaxy

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distant
adjective
uk
/ˈdɪs.tənt/us
/ˈdɪs.tənt/
far ...
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galaxy
noun
uk
/ˈɡæl.ək.si/us
/ˈɡæl.ək.si/
one of the independent groups of stars in ...
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(Definition ofdistantandgalaxyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The possibility of this happening is about as likely as humans walking the surface of planets of distant galaxies.
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The galaxy is at a redshift of 7.51, and it is neighbour to what was announced then as second mostdistantgalaxywith a redshift of 7.2.
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It will detect and study the earliest and most distant galaxies, the epoch of the first light of the universe.
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Well, for years, amateur astronomers have made important contributions to professional astronomy, spotting comets and supernovae, and monitoring exploding stars in distant galaxies.
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In the future, light from distant galaxies will have had more time to travel, so additional regions will become observable.
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The object was formerly mistakenly classified as adistantgalaxy.
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It will help to probe the nature of dark energy by finding verydistantgalaxyclusters.
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Notable for the visible dust revealed by the back light from the moredistantgalaxy.
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These two galaxies appear very peculiar; a foreground galaxy passes directly in front of our line of sight to a moredistantgalaxy.
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Since the universe is expanding, the universe was smaller (galaxies were closer together) when light from adistantgalaxywas emitted than it is today.
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It might seem that light leaving such adistantgalaxycould never reach us.
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An ultraviolet flare was observed when a star in adistantgalaxywas torn apart from the tidal forces of a black hole.
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He discovered a faint nebular patch at the burst's position, almost certainly adistantgalaxy.
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By comparison, the mostdistantgalaxyand the most distant quasar ever observed, as of 2005, had a redshift of 6.96 and 6.43, respectively.
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As the light from thedistantgalaxypasses by through the foreground galaxy, it passes through the warped spacetime around the foreground galaxy.
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As of 2014, it still holds the record for being the largestdistantgalaxycluster to have been discovered.
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When discovered in 2006, it was the oldest and mostdistantgalaxyever found, at redshift 6.96.
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The story is of the death of an individual, which was linked to an exploding star in adistantgalaxy.
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This can easily be accomplished in reality by telling the probe to fix its orientation by means of distant galaxies.
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This is what we should search for in distant galaxies : the spectral lines of free oxygen.
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