extragalactic
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of extragalactic
Example Sentences
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Kewley says the work highlights how chemical signatures in a galaxy's gas can be used to uncover its past, establishing extragalactic archaeology as a powerful new approach.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 23, 2026
What began during lockdown as a live multimedia cartoon, about a feline mission to stop extragalactic rats from devouring the moon, is now a hilarious graphic novel.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2022
The spacecraft could perform other transformational science, such as studying the extragalactic background light, the collective cosmic glow from all luminous objects in the observable universe.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 6, 2022
IceCube catches about 30 high-energy neutrinos per year that are presumed to be extragalactic.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 31, 2021
At such a rate, we will reach it in ten billion years, and extragalactic astronomy will then be a great deal easier.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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