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| —n , pl -axies | |
| a cloud of gas in the early stages of its evolution into a galaxy | |
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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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