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Noun Concept

Categories: Edwin Hubble, Spiral galaxies, Spirals, Galaxy morphological types

spiral galaxy spiral nebula Galactic arm Galactic Bulge galactic spheroid

A galaxy having a spiral structure; arms containing younger stars spiral out from old stars at the center WordNet 3.0

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A galaxy having a spiral structure; arms containing younger stars spiral out from old stars at the center WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Spiral galaxies form a class of galaxy originally described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work The Realm of the Nebulae and, as such, form part of the Hubble sequence. Wikipedia

A type of galaxy in astronomy Wikipedia Disambiguation

A galaxy having a number of arms of younger stars that spiral out from the centre containing older ones. Wiktionary

Spiral galaxy. Wiktionary (translation)

A spiral-shaped white nebula; these were generally determined to be spiral galaxies in the 20th century. Wiktionary

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grand design spiral galaxy

Magellanic spiral

flocculent spiral galaxy

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WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

spiral galaxy, spiral nebula

Wikipedia

spiral galaxy

Wikidata

spiral galaxy

Wiktionary

spiral galaxy, spiral nebula

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Galactic arm, Galactic Bulge, galactic spheroid, Galaxy: Spiral, halo star, LEDA 2046648, spheroidal halo, spiral arm, spiral arms, spiral galaxies, Spiral Galaxy, spiral nebula, spiral nebulae, stellar halo, Stellar haloes, Stellar halos, Stellar spheroid