The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

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A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery ...

She explored its similarities to previously claimed dark matter-free dwarf galaxies DF2 and DF4, located within the NGC 1052 galaxy group, to determine whether or not FCC 224 belongs to the same ...

Given that many properties of ASASSN–14dx remain unknown, a group of astronomers led by Pasi ... for both the binary system and the white dwarf itself," the researchers write in the paper.

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