"ultra-diffuse" meaning in English

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        "Extremely diffuse."
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          "text": "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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          "ref": "2018 March 28, Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American:",
          "text": "The galaxy, called NGC1052-DF2, is about 65 million light years away. It is almost as big as the Milky Way but is “ultra-diffuse,” meaning it contains just a vanishing fraction of the stars found in our galaxy—only 1 percent, in this case.",
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