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.
Binary Stars. Spica. Spica, Alpha Virginis, is the brightest star in the southern constellation Virgo and the 16th brightest star in the sky. It is a blue subgiant star located at a distance of 262 light years from Earth. Spica is really a close binary star system.