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What does extragalactic mean?

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  1. (astronomy) Originating outside of a galaxy
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Bolton later used it to pinpoint more than 8,000 extragalactic radio sources, including hundreds of quasars.
If Lorentz invariance were violated, the gamma-rays would pass right through the extragalactic infrared fog with insufficient energy to cause annihilation.
The image of the cosmos as seen at VHE is becoming richer with the addition of a new type of extragalactic sources, the radiogalaxies.
In the 1930s and '50s he made estimates of the age of the universe from meteorites and from galactic and extragalactic statistics.
Scientists at DRAO have a wide range of interests, from solar system to extragalactic research.
The number of these sources is consistent with the expected number of extragalactic sources in the background sky.

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