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Galaxy
For Galaxy we have terms and definitions in 3 topics. The topics are Astronomy, Physical Geography and Telescope.
Galaxy (Astronomy) 
A large grouping of stars, galaxies may have 10 billion stars in them. And there may be as many as ten billion galaxies in the Universe. Our own galaxy is named the Milky Way, and is a spiral galaxy. Although there are many close dwarf galaxies, the nearest full sized galaxy is named the Andromeda galaxy.
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Galaxy (Physical Geography)
An assemblage of millions to hundreds of billions of stars.
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Galaxy (Telescope)
United States manufacturer of relatively large optics for amateur-sized Newtonians.
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