EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP â The dogs â and people â who visit the dog park on Swift Avenue will have more to enjoy, thanks to a group of third-graders and a $500 grant from the Egg Harbor Township Education Foundation. Read more
Galactic Disk-A disk of matter, about 30 kiloparsec s (kpc) in diameter and 2 kiloparsec s thick, containing most of the stars and interstellar matter in the Milky Way ... galactic disk Flattened region of gas and dust that bisects the galactic halo in a spiral galaxy. This is the region of active star formation.
galaxy -- (astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust; `extragalactic nebula' is a former name for `galaxy' synonyms: extragalactic nebula: Source:WordNet 3.0 : 4. galaxy, galactic -- a large system of celestial bodies : synonyms: galactic, galaxies