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"text": "The inventory keeps growing, and the latest recruit is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy, meaning no gas and not many more than 10⁶⁻⁷ stars, that has the bad luck to be almost on the far side of the galactic centre from us."
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "faint galaxy that is devoid of gas with higher than normal proportion of dark matter",
"word": "nana sfera galaksio"
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"word": "galaxie naine sphéroïdale"
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"sense": "faint galaxy that is devoid of gas with higher than normal proportion of dark matter",
"word": "törpe szferoidális galaxis"
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"word": "galassia nana sferoidale"
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"word": "galáxia anã esferoidal"
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