Galactocentrism
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galactocentrism-172-18770788
title:
Galactocentrism
text:
In astronomy, galactocentrism is the theory that the Milky Way Galaxy, home of Earth's Solar System, is at or near the center of the Universe. Thomas Wright and Immanuel Kant first speculated that fuzzy patches of light called nebulae were actually distant "island universes" consisting of many stellar systems. The shape of the solar system's own parent galaxy was expected to resemble such "islands universes," but "scientific arguments were marshalled against such a possibility," and this view wa
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Discredited cosmological model, early 20th Century
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactocentrism
date created:
2007-03-31T07:37:04Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T00:33:46Z
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