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n. (elliptical galaxy English)
Usage examples of "elliptical galaxies".
M31 has two small satellites, dwarf elliptical galaxies bound to it by gravity, by the identical law of physics that tends to keep me in my chair.
Other regions, which did not happen to pick up a rotation, would become oval-shaped objects called elliptical galaxies.
They say that if Milky Way had not thrown its weight about for the past few billion years, distorting its satellites, they would by now have formed into perfect elliptical galaxies, and not the smallest ones in the Cluster, either.
None of the great spiral or elliptical galaxies were visible in their normal forms-as gaudy displays of dusty white pinpoints.
And the small elliptical galaxies making up most of the Local Group had few or none of the star-formation zones where cosmozoans could thrive.