noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a distant planet/galaxy/star
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They saw telescope images of the distant planet Neptune.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
distant
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In the 1920s Edwin Hubble observed that distant galaxies look redder than nearby ones.
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High-tech digital cameras are used extensively in astronomy to capture dim light from distant galaxies .
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It was slightly fuzzy and presumably a distant galaxy .
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Quasars are the highly energetic cores of distant galaxies .
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Observations of distant galaxies indicate that they are moving away from us: The universe is expanding.
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Light given out by distant galaxies has to swim against the tide of expansion to get to us.
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But if we look at distant galaxies , there seems to be more or less the same number of them.
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It is now well known that distant galaxies are probably about 10 times farther away than Hubble inferred.
other
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From any chosen viewpoint it looks as though every other galaxy is going away from you.
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Most of the stuff missing was from Mr Marr's extensive collection of material dealing with invasions from other galaxies .
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move
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It starts at zero and eventually the galaxies are moving apart at a steady speed.
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However, the speed at which the galaxies are moving apart gets smaller and smaller, although it never quite reaches zero.
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In Friedmann's model, all the galaxies are moving directly away from each other.
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Sure enough, all the galaxies were moving away from our galaxy.
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The galaxies then start to move toward each other and the universe contracts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Lane was awarded a galaxy of medals for her bravery.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And if you have lots of lumps of matter - lots of galaxies, say - you get lots of local curvatures.
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But the same is true for galaxy number two; the others have moved away from it.
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It was quite a surprise, therefore, to find that most galaxies appeared red-shifted: nearly all were moving away from us!
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Of the two dozen nearest galaxies, only one - the giant spiral Andromeda - is bigger than the Milky Way.
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Surveys of galaxies show large voids with virtually nothing in them, and filaments and walls made up of clusters and superclusters.
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This means in turn that they must be shining almost unbelievably brightly - perhaps 100 or more times than an average galaxy .
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To see why, think of the two-dimensional rubber balloon universe with pebbles stuck to it to represent the galaxies.
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What was the disappeared galaxy like?