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.
Yes, everything that appears as a point like star is in the Milky Way. The most nearby stars outside of the Milky Way are in the dwarf galaxies that are Milky Way satellites, such as the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. These appear as fuzzy little blobs to the naked eye, just as Andromeda does. The only exception to this that I can think of is when a supernova occurs in a nearby galaxy.