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a word so vast it makes 'enormous' sound like a rounding error.
means Relating to a galaxy or the galaxy, or used figuratively to mean staggeringly huge in scale.
from From Greek 'galaxias,' meaning the Milky Way, which itself traces back to 'gala,' milk — the ancients saw that pale band of stars smeared across the night sky and thought of spilled milk. The path runs through Latin 'galaxias' and Late Latin into English, where 'galactic' arrived as the adjective. So at its root, the most cosmic word we have is really just dairy.
- scale
- Our galaxy holds 100 billion-plus stars
- the milk
- Greek 'galaxias' literally means milky
- travel time
- Crossing the Milky Way: 100,000 light-years
- local crew
- We orbit galactic center every 225 million years
milky way — our galaxy containing ~200-400 billion stars, including our sun
andromeda galaxy — nearest major galaxy to the milky way, 2.5 million light-years away
sombrero galaxy — distinctive galaxy in virgo constellation with prominent dust lane, 29 million light-years away