Extragalactic

Word EXTRAGALACTIC
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Definitions and meanings of "Extragalactic"

What do we mean by extragalactic?

Located or originating beyond the Milky Way. adjective

Originating outside of the Milky Way galaxy. adjective

Outside or beyond a galaxy adjective

Originating outside of the Milky Way galaxy.

Originating outside of any galaxy.

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The word "extragalactic" in example sentences

I thought that the article implied that the 'extragalactic' GCs joined our galaxy through the Milky Way cannibalising other, smaller dwarf galaxies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some people reach for the stars, but my reach is extragalactic. ❋ Joel Achenbach (2010)

Globular Cluster M54 in Sagittarius, near the handle of the 'Tea Pot' asterism, has long been thought to be 'probably extragalactic' and originating from the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The other question of course follows… If the X-Rays are actually "30-50x than is actually observed", then logically the difference between X-ray emissions in the two SNIa scenarios would be true for observed extragalactic supernova too. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Or not; the general topic is a hot one in extragalactic astronomy, so there's a lot of research being done. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Now comes news of the potential discovery of dozens of extragalactic planetary systems. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Insanely obsessed fans like me will know that the extragalactic Invasion story arc was originally proposed by Dark Horse but somehow Del Rey ended up with a 21 book arc instead. ❋ Patrick (2009)

Arp points out in his paper that extragalactic dust clouds are known to exist, and he references M 81 as a prime example. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Chances are the entire local group is puffing out enough hydrogen to send up a smoke screen – possibly even with higher redshift extragalactic objects. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Born on this date in 1889, Hubble became the first American astronomer to identify Cepheid variables in M31, which in turn established the extragalactic nature of the spiral nebulae. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These ordinary-looking seeds have actually been genetically modified to detect X-ray bursts from the sun or from some extragalactic sources located halfway across the Universe and emitted billions of years ago. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Miriam Makeba looks like an extragalactic goddess; singing her exuberant Click Song, she sounds like one. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A theory that has dark matter interacting by weak interactions might have been reasonable, but we now know that gamma or X-rays rays do not appear to come from the extragalactic tendrils or halos of dark matter. ❋ Julianne (2008)

The authors understand this, and argue that it might be a combination of issues related to measuring the radius (loss of diffuse light at large radii, radial gradients in the conversion of light to stellar mass), and possibly the initial mass function (the great “here be dragons” of all extragalactic astronomy). ❋ Julianne (2008)

Funes, an astronomer and a Jesuit priest, is one of a dozen scientists, most of them Jesuits, associated with the Vatican Observatory Research Group that operate the Arizona telescope and engages in advanced astrophysics, cosmology and galactic and extragalactic research. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The detection of these gamma-ray photons - with energies more than a million million times the energy of visible light - from one of the most famous extragalactic objects on the sky is remarkable, though long-expected given the many potential sites of particle acceleration and thus gamma-ray production within M 87. ❋ Staq Mavlen (2006)

How could he possibly help mysterious, unknown entities combat some monstrous extragalactic threat when he couldn't even control himself? ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2003)

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