dwarf galaxy

English

Noun

dwarf galaxy (plural dwarf galaxies)

1. (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 (ja) (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