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 Translation for 'elliptical galaxy' from English to Russian
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эллиптическая галактика {ж}
elliptical galaxy
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эллиптический {adj}
elliptical
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галактика {ж}
galaxy
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галактика {ж} Андромеды
Andromeda Galaxy
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неправильная галактика {ж}
irregular galaxy
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спиральная галактика {ж}
spiral galaxy
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кольцеобразная галактика {ж}
ring galaxy
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карликовая галактика {ж}
dwarf galaxy
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Автостопом по галактике [Дуглас Адамс]
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [Douglas Adams]
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Usage Examples English
  • Messier 87 (also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, generally abbreviated to M87) is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo that contains several trillion stars.
  • NGC 7052 is an elliptical galaxy in Vulpecula at a distance of 214 million light-years from Earth.
  • Every massive elliptical galaxy contains a supermassive black hole at its center.
  • The post-merger elliptical galaxy has a very low gas content, and so H II regions can no longer form.
  • 3C 273 lies at the center of a giant elliptical galaxy with an apparent magnitude of 16 and an apparent size of 30 arcseconds.

  • The second stage is marked by the black hole stabilizing by suppressing gas cooling, thus leaving the elliptical galaxy in a stable state.
  • One of the closer active galaxies to Earth at a distance of 62 million light-years, Fornax A appears in the optical spectrum as a large elliptical galaxy with dust lanes near its core.
  • In the visible spectrum, it appears as an elliptical galaxy in a small cluster.
  • It has a central core made of older stars that resembles an elliptical galaxy, and an outer ring of young stars that orbits around the core.
  • Some galaxies are much richer in globulars than the Milky Way: The giant elliptical galaxy M87 contains over a thousand.

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