thick disk

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thick disk [¦thik ′disk]

(astronomy)

A component of the galactic stellar population that extends over distances up to 1500 parsecs from the galactic plane, and is approximately 9-10 × 10⁹years old, intermediate in age between the thin disk and the halo.

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