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GPG

GPG is the initialism of green pea galaxy.

Meaning of green pea galaxy

Noun

green pea galaxy (plural green pea galaxies)

  1. A type of galaxy, found in the local universe, that are active, undergoing high rates of star formation, which provides a green tinge, and are compact, visually appearing akin to peas. These active galaxies have strong oxygen emission lines and no active galactic nucleus (“AGN”), similar to small galaxies in the distant early universe, but unlike those in the nearby contemporary universe.
    Synonyms:
    GP, GPG, GP galaxy, green pea, greenpea, pea, pea galaxy

Forms of GPG

pluralGPGs

Questions about GPG

What is GPG the initialism of?
GPG is the initialism of green pea galaxy.

Words near GPG in the dictionary

  1. GPD
  2. GPDA
  3. GPEW
  4. gpf
  5. GPFs
  6. GPG
  7. GPGPU
  8. GPGs
  9. GPH
  10. GPhotos
  11. GPHs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: GPG (page history and authors); green pea galaxy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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