elliptical
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M87 is the giant elliptical galaxy that dominates the cluster.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026
As this wobble interacts with gradual shifts in Earth's elliptical orbit, it creates two major climatic precession cycles lasting about 19,000 and 23,000 years.
From Science Daily ● May 27, 2026
The Moon's monthly orbit around Earth is slightly elliptical rather than circular, which means its distance from us varies and so not all full Moons are the same.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
Lynne Ramsay’s film is an elliptical, claustrophobic portrait of postpartum delirium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025
But occasionally a passing star makes a gravitational flurry and commotion in the cometary cloud, and a group of comets finds itself in highly elliptical orbits, plunging toward the Sun.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
"Our simulation reveals the intimate details of the formation of galaxies such as the transformation of spirals into ellipticals through galaxy mergers."
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2023
Both types of galaxies are also found in the Local Supercluster, but while the Supergalactic Plane is teeming with bright ellipticals, bright disk galaxies are conspicuously absent.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2023
These included Peloton bicycles and treadmills and iFit NordicTrack bicycles and ellipticals.
From Reuters ● Mar. 8, 2023
Treadmills and ellipticals feature calorie counts as prominently as they do distance “traveled.”
From Slate ● Jan. 1, 2023
Some clusters have their galaxies arranged in an unambiguously spherical geometry; they are composed chiefly of ellipticals, often dominated by one giant elliptical, the presumptive galactic cannibal.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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