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disc galaxy

galaxy characterized by a flattened circular volume of stars, that may include a central bulge
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disc galaxy

Summary

disc galaxy ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (72 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • disc galaxy's subclass of is recorded as galaxy[2].
  • disc galaxy's Commons category is recorded as Disc galaxies[3].
  • disc galaxy's has part is recorded as galactic pole[4].
  • disc galaxy's has part is recorded as galactic north[5].
  • disc galaxy's has part is recorded as galactic south[6].
  • disc galaxy's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06_nks[7].
  • disc galaxy's shape is recorded as disk[8].
  • disc galaxy's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as disk-galaxies[9].
  • disc galaxy's Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID is recorded as 391[10].
  • disc galaxy's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 106996143[11].
  • disc galaxy's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C106996143[12].
  • disc galaxy's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as physics-and-astronomy/disk-galaxies[13].

Why It Matters

disc galaxy ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (72 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). disc galaxy. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/disc-galaxy
MLA “disc galaxy.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/disc-galaxy.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_disc-galaxy_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{disc galaxy}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/disc-galaxy}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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