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.
The most famous galaxies are: Milky Way Galaxy: The galaxy where our â¦ Solar System resides. Andromeda Galaxy: Our nearest large galaxy. Large Magellanic Cloud: Brightest patch of nebulosity in the sky. Canis Major Dwarf: Our nearest galaxy at 0.025 Mly Others are named for their shape.he Earth is inside the Milky Way Galaxy. The closest other known galaxies are the two clouds of Magellan, which are small galaxies that orbit the Milky way. The closest oth â¦ er large galaxy, about the size of the Milky Way, is the Andromeda Galaxy. Andromeda is the nearest galaxy to Earth.