All 6 Uses of
galaxy
in
Childhood's End
- You arc looking at your own Universe, the island galaxy of which your Sun is a member, from a distance of half a million light-years.†
Chpt 14 *
- "In this single galaxy of ours," murmured Karellen, "there are eighty-seven thousand million suns.†
Chpt 14
- The image of the galaxy's swirling fire-mists faded: light returned to the sudden silence of the great chamber.†
Chpt 14
- Then he has left the Galaxy.†
Chpt 18
- They were equally helpless, equally overwhelmed by the unimaginable complexity of a galaxy of a hundred thousand million suns, and a cosmos of a hundred thousand million galaxies.†
Chpt 23
- They were equally helpless, equally overwhelmed by the unimaginable complexity of a galaxy of a hundred thousand million suns, and a cosmos of a hundred thousand million galaxies.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
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(galaxy) a collection of star systems held together by gravity -- for example, our sun is a star whose system includes Earth and the other planets. That star system is a tiny part of the Milky Way galaxy