dwarf galaxy

English

Noun

dwarf galaxy (plural dwarf galaxies)

(astronomy) Any galaxy, considerably smaller than the Milky Way, that has only several billions of stars.

Hypernyms

galaxy

Hyponyms

blue compact dwarf galaxy
dwarf elliptical galaxy
dwarf irregular galaxy
dwarf spheroidal galaxy
dwarf spiral galaxy
ultra-compact dwarf galaxy
ultra-faint dwarf galaxy

Related terms

giant galaxy

Translations

small galaxy

Catalan: galàxia nana f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 矮星系 (ǎixīngxì)
Esperanto: nana galaksio
Finnish: kääpiögalaksi (fi)
French: galaxie naine f
German: Zwerggalaxie (de) f
Hungarian: törpegalaxis
Italian: galassia nana f
Japanese: 矮小銀河 (わいしょうぎんが, waishō ginga)
Korean: 왜소은하(矮小銀河) (waeso'eunha)
Portuguese: galáxia anã f
Russian: ка́рликовая гала́ктика f (kárlikovaja galáktika)
Serbo-Croatian: патуљаста галаксија f (patuljasta galaksija)
Swedish: dvärggalax c
Turkish: cüce gökada

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