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extragalactic

About 0.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Originating outside of the Milky Way galaxy.
    Extragalactic astronomy is the study of things outside the Milky Way.
  2. adjective Originating outside of any galaxy.
  3. adjective Originating outside of the local galaxy.

Similar words

anagalactic extraplanetary intergalactic extramundane extradimensional transgalactic circumgalactic extraspherical intragalactic extraorbital

Often followed by

radio nebulae objects sources astronomy distance background systems origin distances

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