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galactic bulge

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galactic bulge [gə¦lak·tik ′bəlj]
(astronomy)
A spheroidal distribution of stars that is centered on the nucleus of the Milky Way Galaxy and extends to a distance of about 3 kiloparsecs from the center.
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In the former she gave an invited oral contribution on "Outlining the Local Void with the Parkes HI ZOA and Galactic Bulge survey", next to a poster presentation ("Galaxy transformation in action?
University of Cape Town: Astronomy Department--2007 annual report by Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa
Generally, the black hole's mass was seen to be about 1,000th that of the mass of the surrounding galactic bulge.
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