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A spiral galaxy is a certain kind of galaxy originally described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work The Realm of the Nebulae and, as such, forms part of the Hubble sequence. Spiral galaxies consist of a flat, rotating disc containing stars, gas and dust, and a central concentration of stars known as the bulge. These are surrounded by a much fainter ...
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Spiral shaped system composed of stars, gas clouds, and dust, numbering in the billions.
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(from the article `galaxy`) Spirals are characterized by circular symmetry, a bright nucleus surrounded by a thin outer disk, and a superimposed spiral structure. They are ... A better situation exists for the detection of supermassive black holes in the nuclei of spiral galaxies, since the interpretation of organized ... ...elliptic...
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The spiral galaxy NGC 1309 A galaxy with a flattened disk and a nuclear bulge from which emanate luminous spiral arms. As well as stars, the disk harbors extensive interstellar clouds of gas and dust. Surrounding the disk is a large galactic halo. There are two main types, barred spirals (type S...
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A galaxy that contains a prominent central bulge and luminous arms of gas, dust, and young stars that wind out from the central nucleus in a spiral formation. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a spiral galaxy.
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n] - a galaxy having a spiral structure
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spiral nebula noun a galaxy having a spiral structure; arms containing younger stars spiral out from old stars at the center
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