satellite galaxy
noun
plural satellite galaxies
: a galaxy that is bound by the gravitational field of a larger galaxy and that is often too small to have a defined shape
Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way visible in the Southern Hemisphere, this exploding star was a mere 170,00 light years away.
Lavinia Edmunds et al.
Lavinia Edmunds et al.
Word History
First Known Use
1904, in the meaning defined above
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