Definition of thanksgiving for English Language Learners. Thanksgiving : the fourth Thursday in November in the U.S. or the second Monday in October in Canada celebrated as a legal holiday for people to be thankful for what they have.
A galaxy contains stars, gas and dust. In a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way, the stars, gas, and dust are organized into a bulge, a disk containing spiral arms, and a halo.. Elliptical galaxies have a bulge-like central region and a halo, but do not have a disk.
The cosmos is about 13.7 billion years old, so the newly discovered galaxy was present when the universe was 4 percent of its current age. The other six galaxies were sending out light from between 380 million and 600 million years after the Big Bang. (See pictures of Hubble's Top Ten Discoveries.)