Galaxy vs Perigalacticon - What's the difference?
galaxy | perigalacticon |
* 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.
(astronomy) The point in the orbit of a star at which it is closest to the centre of its local galaxy
As a proper noun galaxy
is (astronomy|dated) the milky way galaxy, from when it was thought the universe (our universe) had only one galaxy.As a noun perigalacticon is
(astronomy) the point in the orbit of a star at which it is closest to the centre of its local galaxy.galaxy
English
Noun
(galaxies)- So may thy cheekes red outweare scarlet dye, / And their white, whitenesse of the Galaxie [...].