Galactic Plane

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4554.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4554. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Coordinates, Time, And Motion, Positional Concepts

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The plane of the disc of our Galaxy. It follows a line running more or less through the center of the Milky Way, and is inclined to the celestial equator by an angle of about 62°. In the current system of galactic coordinates defined by the IAU in 1959, the galactic plane is defined by bII=0° and is the central line of the distribution, as determined by radioastronomers, of neutral hydrogen in th...

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