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.
Most common type, most of these are dwarf galaxies (too small and too dim to be easily seen). Shaped like large, 3-dimensional ellipses (football shaped). Giant elliptical galaxies can be over 9 million light-years across and contain trillions of stars.. Dwarf elliptical galaxies- only about 3,000 light-years across and contain fewer than a million stars. Most contain little gas and dust and cannot make new stars. Irregular galaxies can take many different shapes and contain 100 million to 10 billion stars, Less common than elliptical or spiral. a. Larger than Dwarf ellipticals but smaller than spiral galaxies. a galaxy that does not have a regular shape, typically smaller than other types or galaxies, generally have bright, young stars and lots of gas and dust to form new stars.