Galaxy vs Cosmos - What's the difference?
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* 1633 , John Donne, "Sapho to Philænis":
(galaxy) Any of the collections of many millions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherent systems, of which there are billions in the known universe.
The universe.
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, title= An ordered, harmonious whole.
Any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously coloured flowers and pinnate leaves.
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As nouns the difference between galaxy and cosmos
is that galaxy is the Milky Way; the apparent band of concentrated stars which appears in the night sky over earth while cosmos is the universe.As a proper noun Galaxy
is the Milky Way Galaxy, from when it was thought the Universe (our universe) had only one galaxy.galaxy
English
Noun
(galaxies)- So may thy cheekes red outweare scarlet dye, / And their white, whitenesse of the Galaxie [...].
Synonyms
* (astronomy) G (abbreviation)Derived terms
* active galaxy * dwarf galaxy * elliptical galaxy * extragalactic * galactic * galaxy cluster / cluster of galaxies * galaxy filament / filament of galaxies * galaxy nucleus * galaxy sheet / sheet of galaxies * galaxy wall / wall of galaxies * irregular galaxy * lenticular galaxy * spiral galaxy * whirlpool galaxycosmos
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia cosmos) (wikispecies)A problem of cosmic proportions, passage=In Dr Wetterich’s picture of the cosmos the redshift others attribute to expansion is, rather, the result of the universe putting on weight. If atoms weighed less in the past, he reasons, the light they emitted then would, in keeping with the laws of quantum mechanics, have been less energetic than the light they emit now.}}