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Galactic

adjective

Of or relating to a galaxy (especially our galaxy the Milky Way).

Inconceivably large. Synonyms: astronomic, astronomical.

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Etymology of 'Galactic'

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"Galactic" Quotes from Famous Books

... AN ATTRIBUTE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE. Go forth on a moonless night and behold the firmament emblazoned with its myriad of scintillating stars, solar orbs, nebulae, world-systems in the making: the galactic circle, a jeweled band athwart the canopy of Heaven; a seething maelstrom of Light: countless suns in space all expressing the ...

— The Planet Mars and its Inhabitants - A Psychic Revelation • Eros Urides and J. L. Kennon

... interstellar expanse seen in other directions. Yet even that expanse is not everywhere equally dark, for it contains gloomy deeps discernable with careful watching. Here, too, contrast plays an important part, though less striking than within the galactic region. Some of Sir William Herschel's observations appear to indicate an association between these tenebrious spots and neighboring star clouds and nebul. It is an illuminating bit of astronomical history that when he was sweeping the then virgin heavens with his ...

— Curiosities of the Sky • Garrett Serviss

Words linked to "Galactic" : galaxy, big, large, astronomic