Meaning

1 senses

  1. Any galaxy, considerably smaller than the Milky Way, that has only several billions of stars.

    Zwerggalaxie

    ка́рликовая гала́ктикаkárlikovaja galáktika

Examples

1 sentences

  1. A team of astronomers accidentally discovered a previously unseen dwarf galaxy hiding behind a globular star cluster.

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Translations

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small galaxy:
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small galaxy:

Forms

plural: dwarf galaxies
Singulardwarf galaxy
Pluraldwarf galaxies

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
duvetB1dwarfB2dwelldwellerdwelling

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