Far 3 kpc Arm
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far-3-kpc-arm-245-5753569
title:
Far 3 kpc Arm
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The Far 3 kpc Arm was discovered in 2008 by astronomer Tom Dame while preparing a talk on the galaxy's spiral arms for a meeting of the 212th American Astronomical Society. It is one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way and it is located in the first galactic quadrant at a distance of 3 kiloparsecs from the Galactic Center. Along with the Near 3 kpc Arm, the existence of which has been known since the mid-1950s, the counterpart inner arms establish the symmetry of the Milky Way. Tom Dame and coll
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Minor arm near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_3_kpc_Arm
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2024-01-07T22:49:16Z
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