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galactic pole

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galactic pole [gə′lak·tik ′pōl]
(astronomy)
On the celestial sphere, either of the two points 90° from the galactic equator.
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Sculptor's claim to fame is that the southern galactic pole is less than one degree southwest of this lovely globular.
The Sculptor's feast in art by Streicher, Magda / Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa
Using the Sliding Anglo-Australian Telescope on Siding Spring Mountain in Australia, the survey examines objects in two large wedges of sky at the north and south galactic poles.
A Dark View of the Universe by COWEN, RON / Science News
Szalay of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and his collaborators initially determined the positions of galaxies along a long, narrow line of sight -- a pencil beam -- in the direction of the Milky Way's north and south galactic poles.
Probing a universe of bubbles and voids by Peterson, Ivars / Science News
 
 
 
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