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| the Dog Star, the brightest-appearing star in the heavens, located in the constellation Canis Major |
| the time when the sun is farthest south from the celestial equator occurring around December 21st |
protogalaxy
in cosmology, vast cloud of gas that by contraction and condensation becomes a galaxy of stars. In evolutionary ("big-bang") models of creation, protogalaxies appear early in the expansion phase of the universe; in the steady-state model they are slowly but continually forming from newly created matter
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