A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system made up of stars, remnants of stars, agglomerations of gas and dust, along with an unknown type of “dark matter” that has mass but does not emit light or interact with “ordinary” matter. The word “galaxy” comes from the Greek work galaxias which means "milky", a reference to the whitish path of t...
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