How to Use spiral galaxy in a Sentence

spiral galaxy

noun
  • That means that the spiral galaxy features a central structure of stars shaped like a bar.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 July 2020
  • However, life in a spiral galaxy can have its downsides, too.
    — Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Pretty much every bright light in this image is a star but for a lovely spiral galaxy.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Billions of years ago, a young spiral galaxy began to grow in a crowded part of the universe.
    — Lisa Kewley, The Conversation, 14 May 2026
  • The spiral galaxy captured has three arms, while most galaxies of that kind have an even number.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 20 July 2021
  • The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, and our solar system lies on its outer fringes.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 3 July 2025
  • To the right of center is a clump of bright white spiral galaxies that seem to be twisting into one another.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 8 July 2023
  • The first is a spiral galaxy; the second is an elliptical galaxy.
    — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • Size-wise, the Milky Way, a typical spiral galaxy, sits in the middle.
    — Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 23 Aug. 2022
  • These are the most common type of galaxy across the universe, and our own Milky Way is a type of spiral galaxy.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 May 2021
  • The casualty was a star in a spiral galaxy some 160 million light-years away.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 July 2017
  • Messier 77 is also an active spiral galaxy with a disc rich in gas and dust, which both feeds and results from new star formation.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026
  • Earth is in the Milky Way, a spiral galaxy; its stars cluster in spiral arms that swirl around the galaxy’s center.
    — Brian Jackson, The Conversation, 20 Sep. 2021
  • The team behind the James Webb space telescope chose this rare spiral galaxy because of its potential.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 Aug. 2022
  • But how did the researchers successfully trace the motions of our solar system around our spiral galaxy back over billions of years?
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
  • In spiral galaxies, for example, less gas tends to fall into the center, and the central black hole tends to have less energy.
    — David Garofalo, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The potential new planet was spotted in the spiral galaxy Messier 51.
    — Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The universe is full of spiral galaxies, comprising about 77% of those observed.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 July 2019
  • About two thirds of spiral galaxies exhibit bars, so in this way the Milky Way is in the majority.
    — Mark J. Reid, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2020
  • In a spiral galaxy like our Milky Way, the galactic core contains more stars and hence gravity than the outer arms do.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 12 June 2025
  • Andromeda is a vast spiral galaxy formed from the merging of multiple smaller galaxies billions of years ago.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The 19 images are spiral galaxies found near the Milky Way Galaxy.
    — Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
  • At about two million light-years apart, the Milky Way and Andromeda are two giant spiral galaxies.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, but the researchers believed this one became an elliptical galaxy.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Aug. 2020
  • This image shows only a section of the incredibly expansive spiral galaxy.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 13 May 2026
  • Located in the constellation Canes Vanatici, the spiral galaxy is made up of long swirls of gas and dust speckled with stars.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 13 May 2026
  • The motions of stellar streams contain clues to how our barred spiral galaxy evolved over billions of years, including through collisions with other galactic realms.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The Whale Galaxy, on the other hand, is a more typical spiral galaxy with arms of stars that spiral out from a central point, often resembling a whirlpool.
    — National Geographic, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Although most appear as tiny, fuzzy spots or blobs, one named UGC 4526 clearly shows the spindle shape of an edge-on spiral galaxy.
    — PCMAG, 16 May 2024
  • This month the view improves as the dynamic and photogenic galactic center of our spiral galaxy, known as the Milky Way core, reappears in the southeast at night.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 13 Feb. 2025

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