- See also Galaxy class. For the magazine, see Galaxy Science Fiction.
The Milky Way Galaxy as depicted in the USS Voyager's astrometrics lab in 2374
A galaxy is a dense cluster of millions of stars, nebulae and various other matter which is held in place by a massive gravitational attraction (such as a super massive blackhole).
Galaxies can take on many shapes and sizes, our own galaxy the Milky Way is a Spiral Galaxy so is naturally divided into a number of spiral arms, never the less it is a common practice as means of general galactic charting by many races to divided the Milky Way into four equal Quadrants.
In addition to the main body of a galaxy, many galaxies also have a number of smaller satellite galaxies and globular star clusters which seemingly orbit the main galactic body. (ST reference: Star Charts)
Known galaxies[]
- Andromeda Galaxy
- Milky Way Galaxy
- Kasteroborous
- Triangulum Galaxy
- unnamed galaxies
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Connections[]
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| Galactic regions: | quadrant • sector • cluster • nebula • star system | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| System bodies: | star • planet • planetoid • dwarf planet • moon • asteroid • meteoroid • comet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
External links[]
- Galaxy article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Galaxy article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.