super spiral

A form of superluminous spiral galaxy — a type of supergiant spiral galaxy of the local universe that is much larger than most giant spiral galaxies, and whose stellar creation rate is much higher than typical spiral galaxies because it is more luminous

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Meanings

nounsuper spiral (plural super spirals)

plural super spirals

  1. abbreviationellipsisastronomyEllipsis of superluminous spiral galaxy.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
superluminous spiral galaxy
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