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  2. Galactic core - Wikipedia

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    Galactic Center of the Milky Way; Active galactic nucleus, of a regular galaxy; Bulge (astronomy), the core of spiral galaxies in general; Central massive object, the mass concentration at the center of a galaxy; Supermassive black hole, the core of most galaxies

  3. Earth's inner core - Wikipedia

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    The velocity of the S waves in the core varies smoothly from about 3.7 km/s at the center to about 3.5 km/s at the surface. That is considerably less than the velocity of S waves in the lower crust (about 4.5 km/s) and less than half the velocity in the deep mantle, just above the outer core (about 7.3 km/s). [5]: fig.2

  4. Glossary of astronomy - Wikipedia

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    The direction in space that is directly opposite the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, as viewed from Earth; considered as a point on the celestial sphere, the Milky Way's anticenter is in the constellation Auriga. Galactic Center The rotational center of the Milky Way galaxy, consisting of a supermassive black hole of 4.100 ± 0.034 million ...

  5. Astronomy - Wikipedia

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    In the center of the Milky Way is the core, a bar-shaped bulge with what is believed to be a supermassive black hole at its center. This is surrounded by four primary arms that spiral from the core. This is a region of active star formation that contains many younger, population I stars.

  6. Stellar core - Wikipedia

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    A stellar core is the extremely hot, dense region at the center of a star. For an ordinary main sequence star, the core region is the volume where the temperature and pressure conditions allow for energy production through thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium .

  7. Planetary core - Wikipedia

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    A planetary core consists of the innermost layers of a planet. [1] Cores may be entirely liquid, or a mixture of solid and liquid layers as is the case in the Earth. [2] In the Solar System, core sizes range from about 20% (the Moon) to 85% of a planet's radius .

  8. A giant hole in Siberia is visible from space and growing ...

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    A giant hole in the earth is breaking open the land in Siberia, and photos from space show it's growing rapidly. It resembles a stingray, a horseshoe crab, or a giant tadpole.

  9. Galactic Center - Wikipedia

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    The Galactic Center is the barycenter of the Milky Way and a corresponding point on the rotational axis of the galaxy. [1] [2] Its central massive object is a supermassive black hole of about 4 million solar masses, which is called Sagittarius A*, [3] [4] [5] a compact radio source which is almost exactly at the galactic rotational center.