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Meaning of red nugget galaxy | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

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A type of passive, massive and compact elliptical galaxy, that has been little changed over many billions of years, having little internal activity, little to no interaction with other galaxies, little to no new star formation in billions of years. The galaxies typically are many times more massive, and many times smaller, than our Milky Way Galaxy. The redness grows as stars age, which as a population, become redder with time.

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C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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