Ultra-diffuse

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Extremely diffuse.
  2. 2
    Specifically, designating a type of galaxy with a very low proportion of visible stars compared to the Milky Way, and hence a very low luminosity.

    "In the next sections we study the properties of galaxies that satisfy our criteria to be ultra diffuse, and consider the contribution from galaxies in the fore- and background using the CFHTLS fields."

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"In the next sections we study the properties of galaxies that satisfy our criteria to be ultra diffuse, and consider the contribution from galaxies in the fore- and background using the CFHTLS fields."

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