How to Use spiral galaxy in a Sentence

spiral galaxy

noun

• These are the most common type of galaxy across the universe, and our own Milky Way is a type of spiral galaxy.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 May 2021
• Size-wise, the Milky Way, a typical spiral galaxy, sits in the middle.
  — Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 23 Aug. 2022
• That means that the spiral galaxy features a central structure of stars shaped like a bar.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 July 2020
• Earth is in the Milky Way, a spiral galaxy; its stars cluster in spiral arms that swirl around the galaxy’s center.
  — Brian Jackson, The Conversation, 20 Sep. 2021
• The 19 images are spiral galaxies found near the Milky Way Galaxy.
  — Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
• The Andromeda Galaxy is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way but is still about 2.5 million light years away.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 2 Mar. 2024
• The casualty was a star in a spiral galaxy some 160 million light-years away.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 July 2017
• Don’t miss out on these: – The Hubble Space Telescope looked straight into the heart of a grand design spiral galaxy and shared a stunning head-on view.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 June 2022
• The spiral galaxy captured has three arms, while most galaxies of that kind have an even number.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 20 July 2021
• To the right of center is a clump of bright white spiral galaxies that seem to be twisting into one another.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 8 July 2023
• The potential new planet was spotted in the spiral galaxy Messier 51.
  — Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2021
• The team behind the James Webb space telescope chose this rare spiral galaxy because of its potential.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 Aug. 2022
• About two thirds of spiral galaxies exhibit bars, so in this way the Milky Way is in the majority.
  — Mark J. Reid, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2020
• However, life in a spiral galaxy can have its downsides, too.
  — Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2019
• The James Webb Space Telescope has captured mind-expanding portraits of 19 spiral galaxies and the millions of stars that call them home.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
• At about two million light-years apart, the Milky Way and Andromeda are two giant spiral galaxies.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2018
• Astronomers have for decades been able to observe these nearby spiral galaxies, but this is the first time images of them have been presented to the public, NASA said.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2024
• The finding also suggests something else: a maximum size for how big a spiral galaxy can get.
  — Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2019
• The universe is full of spiral galaxies, comprising about 77% of those observed.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 July 2019
• The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, but the researchers believed this one became an elliptical galaxy.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Aug. 2020
• The Whale Galaxy, on the other hand, is a more typical spiral galaxy with arms of stars that spiral out from a central point, often resembling a whirlpool.
  — National Geographic, 20 Mar. 2018
• But how did the researchers successfully trace the motions of our solar system around our spiral galaxy back over billions of years?
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
• The possible planet was discovered in a spiral galaxy called Messier 51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, which is more than 23 million light-years from Earth.
  — NBC News, 18 Feb. 2021
• Instead, this rare ring galaxy was formed when a large spiral galaxy and a smaller galaxy collided.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 Aug. 2022
• In at least half a dozen protoplanetary disks, something seems be winding gas and dust into seashell whorls like the arms of spiral galaxies.
  — Joshua Sokol, WIRED, 28 May 2018
• Orion Arm Our Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, consisting of a flat, rotating disk containing stars, gas, and dust, with a central bulge in the middle.
  — Jamie Carter, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2020
• According to the space agency, IC 2051 is a spiral galaxy, noticeable in its whirling, pinwheeling arms and a bar of stars cutting through its center.
  — Fox News, 23 Dec. 2019
• Astronomers believe that about 60% of all galaxies are spiral galaxies — and our solar system resides in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024
• Scientists believe that long ago, the Cartwheel was a common spiral galaxy, similar to our Milky Way.
  — Tereza Pultarova, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2022
• But instead of a spiral galaxy, the final object will be an elliptical.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2021

Last Updated: 29 Jul 2024