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Schödel, R.; Ott, T.; Genzel, R.; Hofmann, R.; Lehnert, M.; Eckart, A.; Mouawad, N.; Alexander, T.; Reid, M. J.; Lenzen, R.; Hartung, M.; Lacombe, F.; Rouan, D.; Gendron, E.; Rousset, G.; Lagrange, A.-M.; Brandner, W.; Ageorges, N.; Lidman, C.; Moorwood, A. F. M.; Spyromilio, J.; Hubin, N.; Menten,
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Alcock, C.; Allsman, R. A.; Alves, D. R.; Axelrod, T. S.; Becker, A. C.; Basu, A.; Baskett, L.; Bennett, D. P.; Cook, K. H.; Freeman, K. C.; Griest, K.; Guern, J. A.; Lehner, M. J.; Marshall, S. L.; Minniti, D.; Peterson, B. A.; Pratt, M. R.; Quinn, P. J.; Rodgers, A. W.; Stubbs, C. W.; Sutherland,
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around the central black-hole. Current evidence favors the latter theory, as formation through a large accretion disk is more likely to lead to the observed discrete edge of the young stellar cluster at roughly 0.5 parsec. Most of these 100 young, massive stars seem to be concentrated within one or
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Nishiyama, Shogo; Nagata, Tetsuya; Baba, Daisuke; Haba, Yasuaki; Kadowaki, Ryota; Kato, Daisuke; Kurita, Mikio; Nagashima, Chie; Nagayama, Takahiro; Murai, Yuka; Nakajima, Yasushi; TamuRA, Motohide; Nakaya, Hidehiko; Sugitani, Koji; Naoi, Takahiro; Matsunaga, Noriyuki; Tanabé, Toshihiko; Kusakabe,
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Abuter, R.; Amorim, A.; Anugu, N.; Bauböck, M.; Benisty, M.; Berger, J. P.; Blind, N.; Bonnet, H.; Brandner, W.; Buron, A.; Collin, C.; Chapron, F.; Clénet, Y.; Foresto, V. dCoudé u; Zeeuw, P. T. de; Deen, C.; Delplancke-Ströbele, F.; Dembet, R.; Dexter, J.; Duvert, G.; Eckart, A.; Eisenhauer, F.;
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In addition to the paradox of youth, there is a "conundrum of old age" associated with the distribution of the old stars at the Galactic Center. Theoretical models had predicted that the old stars—which far outnumber young stars—should have a steeply-rising density near the black hole, a so-called
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Animation of a barred galaxy like the Milky Way showing the presence of an X-shaped bulge. The X-shape extends to about one half of the bar radius. It is directly visible when the bar is seen from the side, but when the viewer is close to the long axis of the bar it cannot be seen directly and its
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Star formation does not seem to be occurring currently at the Galactic Center, although the Circumnuclear Disk of molecular gas that orbits the Galactic Center at two parsecs seems a fairly favorable site for star formation. Work presented in 2002 by Antony Stark and Chris Martin mapping the gas
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Eisenhauer, F.; Genzel, R.; Alexander, T.; Abuter, R.; Paumard, T.; Ott, T.; Gilbert, A.; Gillessen, S.; Horrobin, M.; Trippe, S.; Bonnet, H.; Dumas, C.; Hubin, N.; Kaufer, A.; Kissler-Patig, M.; Monnet, G.; Ströbele, S.; Szeifert, T.; Eckart, A.; Schödel, R.; Zucker, S. (2005). "SINFONI in the
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Several suggestions have been put forward to explain this puzzling observation, but none is completely satisfactory. For instance, although the black hole would eat stars near it, creating a region of low density, this region would be much smaller than a parsec. Because the observed stars are a
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on Paranal in Chile and compares it with the view in visible light. Because VISTA has a camera sensitive to infrared light, it can see through much of the dust blocking the view in visible light, although many more opaque dust filaments still show up well in this
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above and below the Galactic Center. The galaxy's diffuse gamma-ray fog hampered prior observations, but the discovery team led by D. Finkbeiner, building on research by G. Dobler, worked around this problem. The 2014
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fraction of the total number, it is theoretically possible that the overall stellar distribution is different from what is observed, although no plausible models of this sort have been proposed yet.
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The origin of the bubbles is being researched. The bubbles are connected and seemingly coupled, via energy transport, to the galactic core by columnar structures of energetic plasma termed
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Buchholz, R. M.; Schödel, R.; Eckart, A. (May 2009). "Composition of the galactic center star cluster: Population analysis from adaptive optics narrow band spectral energy distributions".
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in the Galactic Center, with many stars forming rapidly and undergoing supernovae at a hundred times the current rate. This starburst may also be accompanied by the formation of galactic
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Ghez, A. M.; Salim, S.; Hornstein, S. D.; Tanner, A.; Lu, J. R.; Morris, M.; Becklin, E. E.; Duchene, G. (20 February 2005). "Stellar Orbits around the Galactic Center Black Hole".
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Cabrera-Lavers, A.; González-Fernández, C.; Garzón, F.; Hammersley, P. L.; López-CorredoiRA, M. (December 2008). "The long Galactic bar as seen by UKIDSS Galactic plane survey".
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There is a supermassive black hole in the bright white area to the right of the center of this wide (scrollable) image. This composite photograph covers about half of a degree.
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Eisenhauer, F.; Schödel, R.; Genzel, R.; Ott, T.; Tecza, M.; Abuter, R.; Eckart, A.; Alexander, T. (2003). "A Geometric Determination of the Distance to the Galactic Center".
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Ng, Y. K; Bertelli, G; Chiosi, C; Bressan, A (1996). "The galactic structure towards the Galactic Center. III. A study of Baade's Window: Discovery of the bar population?".
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Yang, H.-Y. Karen; Ruszkowski, Mateusz; Zweibel, Ellen G. (7 March 2022). "Fermi and eROSITA bubbles as relics of the past activity of the Galaxy's central black hole".
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which is almost exactly at the galactic rotational center. The Galactic Center is approximately 8 kiloparsecs (26,000 ly) away from Earth in the direction of the
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Horrobin, M.; Eisenhauer, F.; Tecza, M.; Thatte, N.; Genzel, R.; Abuter, R.; Iserlohe, C.; Schreiber, J.; Schegerer, A.; Lutz, D.; Ott, T.; Schödel, R. (2004).
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two disks, rather than randomly distributed within the central parsec. This observation however does not allow definite conclusions to be drawn at this point.
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Gillessen, S.; Eisenhauer; Trippe; Alexander; Genzel; Martins; Ott (2009). "Monitoring Stellar Orbits Around the Massive Black Hole in the Galactic Center".
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Vanhollebeke, E.; Groenewegen, M. A. T.; Girardi, L. (April 2009). "Stellar populations in the Galactic bulge. Modelling the Galactic bulge with TRILEGAL".
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Malkin, Zinovy (2012). "The current best estimate of the Galactocentric distance of the Sun based on comparison of different statistical techniques".
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Støstad, M.; Do, T.; Murray, N.; Lu, J.R.; Yelda, S.; Ghez, A. (2015). "Mapping the Outer Edge of the Young Stellar Cluster in the Galactic Center".
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Støstad, M.; Do, T.; Murray, N.; Lu, J.R.; Yelda, S.; Ghez, A. (2015). "Mapping the Outer Edge of the Young Stellar Cluster in the Galactic Center".
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W.; Vandehei, T.; Welch, D. L. (January 1998). "The RR Lyrae Population of the Galactic Bulge from the MACHO Database: Mean Colors and Magnitudes".
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in Germany using Chilean telescopes have confirmed the existence of a supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center, on the order of 4.3 million
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flare 400 times brighter than usual, a record-breaker, from Sagittarius A*. The unusual event may have been caused by the breaking apart of an
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offset from the Galactic Center that would have migrated to its current location once formed, or star formation within a massive, compact gas
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Doeleman, Sheperd S.; et al. (2008). "Event-horizon-scale structure in the supermassive black hole candidate at that Galactic Centre".
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This pan video gives a closer look at a huge image of the central parts of the Milky Way made by combining thousands of images from ESO's
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Kunder, Andrea; Chaboyer, Brian (December 2008). "Metallicity Analysis of MACHO Galactic Bulge RR0 Lyrae Stars from their Light Curves".
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The Galactic Center, as seen by one of the 2MASS infrared telescopes, is located in the bright upper left portion of the image.
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R. Abuter; A. Amorim; M. Bauböck; J. P. Berger; H. Bonnet; W. Brandner; et al. (The GRAVITY collaboration) (April 2019).
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Malkin, Zinovy M. (February 2013). "Analysis of Determinations of the Distance between the Sun and the Galactic Center".
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are gray. The next images show single (broadband) colors, with Chandra X-ray data in pink and MeerKAT radio data in blue.
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event a few million years ago. The existence of these relatively young stars was a surprise to experts, who expected the
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and other telescopes. Images are about 2.2 degrees (1,000 light years) across and 4.2 degrees (2,000 light years) long.
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K. M. (October 2002). "A star in a 15.2-year orbit around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way".
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surrounding the Milky Way seemed to be centered on the star swarms in the constellation of Sagittarius, but the dark
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Camarillo, T.; Mathur; Mitchell; Ratra (2018). "Median Statistics Estimate of the Distance to the Galactic Center".
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from star formation in the region around 1 million years ago. The core stars are a small part within the much wider
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region around the Galactic Center has revealed an accumulating ring with a mass several million times that of the
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that contains a large fraction of the molecular hydrogen present in the Milky Way, and most of the Milky Way's
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and the Galactic Center is not certain, although estimates since 2000 have remained within the range 24–28.4
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appears to be located almost exactly at the Galactic Center and contains an intense compact radio source,
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from Chandra are orange, green, and purple, showing different X-ray energies, and the radio data from
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Majaess, D (March 2010). "Concerning the Distance to the Center of the Milky Way and Its Structure".
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presence can only be inferred from the distribution of brightnesses of stars along a given direction.
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conditions in nearby Los Angeles, to conduct a search for the center with the 100-inch (250 cm)
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around it, would release energy to power the radio source, itself much larger than the black hole.
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The central parts of the Milky Way, as observed in the near-infrared with the NACO instrument on
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Pawsey, J. L (1955). "A Catalogue of Reliably Known Discrete Sources of Cosmic Radio Waves".
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found in the direction of the Galactic bulge relates to the distance to the Galactic Center.
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This article is about the astronomical point in the Milky Way. For the general concept, see
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Infra-red image of the center of the Milky Way revealing a new population of massive stars.
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in Sydney, Australia, a team of radio astronomers from the Division of Radiophysics at the
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In November 2010, it was announced that two large elliptical lobe structures of energetic
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Gamma- and X-ray bubbles at the Milky Way galaxy center: Top: illustration; Bottom: video.
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is even stronger for stars that are on very tight orbits around Sagittarius A*, such as
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do not trace a prominent Galactic bar. The bar may be surrounded by a ring called the
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In May 2021, NASA published new images of the Galactic Center, based on surveys from
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An accurate determination of the distance to the Galactic Center as established from
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Nobuhiko; Sato, Shuji (March 2005). "A Distinct Structure inside the Galactic Bar".
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The center of the Milky Way, as imaged by 64 radio telescopes of the South African
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They predict that in approximately 200 million years, there will be an episode of
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have been identified there so far. They seem to have all been formed in a single
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Krishnarao, Dhanesh; Benjamin, Robert A.; Haffner, L. Matthew (7 August 2020).
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Galactic Center: Young Stars and Infrared Flares in the Central Light-Month".
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A simulation of the stars orbiting the Milky Way's central massive black hole
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Animation showing orbits of stars near the center of the Milky Way galaxy
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Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics Galactic Center Group
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In July 2022, astronomers reported the discovery of massive amounts of
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A small portion of a gigapixel color mosaic of the Milky Way's heart.
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stars) is hindered by numerous effects, which include: an ambiguous
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Yang, H.-Y. K.; Ruszkowski, M.; Zweibel, E. G. (12 February 2018).
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A panorama of the Galactic Center builds on previous surveys from
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within gas flowing into Sagittarius A*, according to astronomers.
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along the line of sight, the Galactic Center cannot be studied at
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Chou, Felicia; Anderson, Janet; Watzke, Megan (5 January 2015).
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Blaauw, A.; Gum, C.S.; Pawsey, J.L.; Westerhout, G. (1960).
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Baade, W (1946). "A Search for the Nucleus of Our Galaxy".
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Aguilar, David A.; Pulliam, Christine (9 November 2010).
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The surroundings of the Galactic Center (Top view map).
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The center of the Milky Way – image taken by ISAAC, the
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from the central black hole to prevent their formation.
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A starchart of the night sky towards the Galactic Center
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
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falling into the black hole or by the entanglement of
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yield the following distances to the Galactic Center:
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in the area blocked the view for optical astronomy.
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Red giant stars coexist with white, Sun-like stars.
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Harvard University. 8 January 2014. 2779: 1816: 1676: 1491: 1489: 884: 730:is about 150 million kilometers (1.0 134:of the Galactic Center, dominated by 3935:The Galactic Supermassive Black Hole 3879:The Galactic Supermassive Black Hole 3714: 3199:Chernyakova, Masha (20 March 2019). 2877: 2826: 2782:"Introduction: Galactic Ring Survey" 2773: 2539: 2533: 2157: 1670: 912:. Although most of them are old red 3981:Fast Stars Near the Galactic Center 3971:Journey to the Center of the Galaxy 3759:"Lights out in the galactic centre" 3666:"Something's been eating the stars" 3179: 2180:10.1146/annurev.aa.31.090193.002021 1767: 1616: 987:, as matter falls into the central 718:in Hawaii, Arizona and California ( 13: 4123: 3836:. London: Imperial College Press. 3825: 1486: 972:and near the critical density for 738:from the Sun at closest approach ( 14: 4680: 3911: 1705: 1218:Detection of an unusually bright 797:Galactic gamma- and X-ray bubbles 720:Very-long-baseline interferometry 340:, including some associated with 72:and a corresponding point on the 4641: 4629: 4617: 4605: 4580: 4579: 4569: 2814:from the original on 12 May 2022 2136:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15096.x 1260: 1239: 1211: 1199: 1179: 1163: 1147: 1131: 1119: 1107: 1095: 1079: 1067: 1055: 1043: 814: 803: 773: 699:at the center of the Milky Way. 344:, in the Galactic Center of the 305:International Astronomical Union 230:stated in 1918 that the halo of 23:. For wider central region, see 3945:The dark heart of the Milky Way 3801: 3776: 3751: 3708: 3654: 3614: 3561: 3547: 3521: 3468: 3415: 3358: 3344: 3325: 3300: 3241: 3173: 3054:(5). 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He found that near the star 1: 4542:Andromeda–Milky Way collision 4042: 3690:10.1016/S0262-4079(10)62278-6 1170:A view of the night sky near 714:A study in 2008 which linked 482:0.15(stat) ± 0.20(syst) 4008:Galactic Center on arxiv.org 3529:"UCLA Galactic Center Group" 2759:10.1088/0004-6256/136/6/2441 2540:Vovk, Olga (27 April 2011). 2435:Astronomy & Astrophysics 1596:10.1088/0004-637X/692/2/1075 1442:Astronomy & Astrophysics 313:equatorial coordinate system 202:, hard (high-energy) X-ray, 153: 126:There are around 10 million 7: 3600:10.1051/0004-6361/200811497 3507:10.1088/0004-637X/808/2/106 3454:10.1088/0004-637X/808/2/106 3401:10.1088/0004-637X/725/1/188 2780:Staff (12 September 2005). 2598:10.1051/0004-6361:200810720 2546:Universe at a glance (blog) 2465:10.1051/0004-6361/201833718 1472:10.1051/0004-6361/201935656 1279: 893:The Galactic Center of the 734:), whereas the distance of 398:0.2(stat) ± 0.2(syst) 27:. 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Index

Galaxy § Center
Galactic bulge
Galactic Center Saga



barycenter
Milky Way
rotational axis
central massive object
supermassive black hole
solar masses
Sagittarius A*
radio source
constellations
Sagittarius
Ophiuchus
Scorpius
Butterfly Cluster
Shaula
Pipe Nebula
stars
parsec
red giants
supergiants
Wolf–Rayet stars
galactic bulge
VISTA telescope
interstellar dust
visible

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