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  2. List of places referred to as the Center of the Universe

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    A concrete circle at the apex of a rebuilt span of the old Boston Avenue viaduct, between 1st and Archer Streets, in Tulsa, Oklahoma is known as "The Center of the Universe". The spot produces an acoustical anomaly [13] and it is for which the Center of the Universe Festival and Ms. Center of the Universe Pageant are named. [citation needed]

  3. Great Attractor - Wikipedia

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    A massive galaxy filament, called the Norma Wall (also called Great Attractor Wall [11]) is located at the center of the supposed position of the Great Attractor. The Norma Wall contains the clusters Pavo II , Norma , Centaurus-Crux and CIZA J1324.7−5736 .

  4. History of the center of the Universe - Wikipedia

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    The center of the Universe is a concept that lacks a coherent definition in modern astronomy; according to standard cosmological theories on the shape of the universe, it has no distinct spatial center. Historically, different people have suggested various locations as the center of the Universe.

  5. Ark: Survival Evolved - Wikipedia

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    Ark: Survival Evolved (stylized as ARK) is a 2017 action-adventure survival video game developed by Studio Wildcard. In the game, players must survive being stranded on one of several maps filled with roaming dinosaurs , fictional fantasy monsters, and other prehistoric animals, natural hazards, and potentially hostile human players.

  6. Galactic Center - Wikipedia

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    The Galactic Center, as seen by one of the 2MASS infrared telescopes, is located in the bright upper left portion of the image. Marked location of the Galactic Center A starchart of the night sky towards the Galactic Center. The Galactic Center is the barycenter of the Milky Way and a corresponding point on the rotational axis of the galaxy.

  7. Galactocentrism - Wikipedia

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    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. [1] [2]Thomas Wright and Immanuel Kant first speculated that fuzzy patches of light called nebulae were actually distant "island universes" consisting of many stellar systems. [3]

  8. Observable universe - Wikipedia

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    The universe's size is unknown, and it may be infinite in extent. [14] Some parts of the universe are too far away for the light emitted since the Big Bang to have had enough time to reach Earth or space-based instruments, and therefore lie outside the observable universe. In the future, light from distant galaxies will have had more time to ...

  9. Center of the universe - Wikipedia

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    Center of the Universe, a song by Built to Spill from their album Keep It Like a Secret; Center of the Universe, an album by Admiral Twin; Center of the Universe, a 1992 album by Giant Sand "Centre of the Universe", a song from the album Epica, by Kamelot "Centre of the Universe", a debut single of Arthur Koldomasov