How to Use spiral galaxy in a Sentence
spiral galaxy
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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
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Size-wise, the Milky Way, a typical spiral galaxy, sits in the middle.
—Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 23 Aug. 2022
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That means that the spiral galaxy features a central structure of stars shaped like a bar.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 July 2020
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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
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The 19 images are spiral galaxies found near the Milky Way Galaxy.
—Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
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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
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The casualty was a star in a spiral galaxy some 160 million light-years away.
—Quanta Magazine, 5 July 2017
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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
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The spiral galaxy captured has three arms, while most galaxies of that kind have an even number.
—Li Cohen, CBS News, 20 July 2021
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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
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The potential new planet was spotted in the spiral galaxy Messier 51.
—Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2021
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The team behind the James Webb space telescope chose this rare spiral galaxy because of its potential.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 Aug. 2022
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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
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However, life in a spiral galaxy can have its downsides, too.
—Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2019
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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
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At about two million light-years apart, the Milky Way and Andromeda are two giant spiral galaxies.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2018
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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
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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
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The universe is full of spiral galaxies, comprising about 77% of those observed.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 July 2019
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The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, but the researchers believed this one became an elliptical galaxy.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Aug. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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Instead, this rare ring galaxy was formed when a large spiral galaxy and a smaller galaxy collided.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 Aug. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Scientists believe that long ago, the Cartwheel was a common spiral galaxy, similar to our Milky Way.
—Tereza Pultarova, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2022
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But instead of a spiral galaxy, the final object will be an elliptical.
—Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2021
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