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Group of stars
Answer for the clue "Group of stars ", 6 letters:
galaxy
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context now rare English) The Milky Way; the apparent band of concentrated stars which appears in the night sky over earth. (from 14th c.) 2 (context galaxy English) Any of the collections of many millions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from French galaxie or directly from Late Latin galaxias "the Milky Way" as a feature in the night sky (in classical Latin via lactea or circulus lacteus )from Greek galaxias (adj.), in galaxias kyklos , literally "milky circle," from gala (genitive ...
Usage examples of galaxy.
Whereas here we have come to the primal Silence antecedent to sound, containing sound as potential, and to the Void antecedent to things, containing as potential the whole of space-time and its galaxies.
They could clearly see the Sagittarian arm, the companion spiral arm to their Aquarian home, arcing off to one side, and there in Leo lay the center of the galaxy, hidden by clouds of stars, with somewhere beating in its midst the great black hole round which the whole thing spins.
Zarth Arn, the man whose body I now inhabit, is son of the greatest ruler in the galaxy?
Time was, Vanda had been the main base solely for Space Recon and the giant corporate enterprises feeding on it: Biotime, Timeco, Alpha One, those gallant companies of exploration, mining the galaxy for biota, bringing home the green.
For your ancestor Brenn Bir did with the Disruptor somehow completely annihilate the alien Magellanians who invaded the galaxy two thousand years ago.
Brenn Bir would not have left solemn warning that it could destroy the galaxy, if it were!
It might be half a galaxy away from Maro, but Bocca was a kind of crossroads.
The answer that came back startled them: From all appearances, the bubbler said, this was an invasion from somewhere outside the Galaxy, by beings unknown, who possessed technology that seemed to dwarf even Supertime.
What seemed to be cloth of gold was actually a costly fabric woven from the byssus threads of Franconian mollusks, famed throughout the galaxy for beauty and toughness.
At that moment, had he been given divine power, he would have depeopled half a galaxy, but his rage faded, paled with his memories of his service in the Empire fleet to exclude the rank and file, the masses.
If we move Phobos, for example, automatic bookkeeping in the Bell Continuum would adjust descriptors for all particles moving within the galaxy, deducting a tiny amount of their total momentum, angular momentum, and kinetic energy.
But Deva had burned, spewing its children out into a galaxy where they had to grow up too soon or die forever.
Lensman LaForge and I chose to be sworn in aboard the Directrix to show that, according to the recent decision of the Galactic Council, our authority extends over both of the Civilized Galaxies.
De Duve thought it likely that such conditions would be encountered perhaps a million times in every galaxy.
What better way to raise her people from outcasts to noble citizens than to put an Earthling on the future throne of the galaxy?