spiral galaxy

English

Noun

spiral galaxy (plural spiral galaxies)

(astronomy) A galaxy having a number of arms of younger stars that spiral out from the centre containing older ones

Synonyms

whirlpool galaxy

Hypernyms

galaxy

Hyponyms

barred spiral galaxy
dwarf spiral galaxy
intermediate spiral galaxy

Translations

spiral galaxy

Arabic: مَجَرَة حَلَزُونِيَّة‎ f (majara ḥalazūniyya)
Egyptian Arabic: مجرة حلزونية‎ f (magarra ḥalazuuniya)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 螺旋星系 (luóxuánxīngxì)
Dutch: spiraalstelsel n
Esperanto: spirala galaksio
Finnish: kierteisgalaksi (fi)

Italian: galassia spirale f
Japanese: 渦巻銀河 (uzumaki ginga)
Russian: спира́льная гала́ктика f (spirálʹnaja galáktika)
Serbo-Croatian: спирална галаксија f (spiralna galaksija)
Sindhi: گھنڊيدار ڪهڪشان‎ f
Turkish: sarmal galaksi, sarmal gök ada
Welsh: galaeth droellog f

See also

References

spiral galaxy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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