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And the closest known galaxy to the Milky Way, Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, is just 25,000 light-years away - it's almost incomprehensible how vast the universe is!
by zomtorg · Oct 31, 2026
CodeGalaxy – explore any GitHub repo as an interactive 3D galaxy
by circuitghost · Oct 31, 2026 · 1 points
When they were shoved in yes, it's terrible. But the effortless way they were incorporated in games like Super Mario Galaxy is something special.
by andrepd · Oct 31, 2026
As a TNG fanatic since it first aired in ‘87 I’m surprised I didn’t get more right, but I got 60%. I missed the one about the alien race who developed the technology where you c…
by temporallobe · Oct 31, 2026
JWST reveals a distant galaxy that may let most of its ionizing radiation escape
by wglb · Oct 30, 2026 · 4 points
Science mapped out our solar system and developed base12 to account for rotation and orbit. What I haven't found is an accounting of our solar system's patterns in our galaxy. W…
by itsamario · Oct 30, 2026
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A galaxy is a physical system of stars, planetary systems, stellar remnants, substellar objects, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter bound together by gravity. The word is derived from the Greek galaxias (γαλαξίας), meaning '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 the mass in a typical galaxy is in the form of dark matter, with only a few percent of that mass visible in the form of stars and nebulae. Supermassive black holes are a common feature at the centers of galaxies. Read more on Wikipedia