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Galactic Centre
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Galactic centre galactic centre
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Proper noun
1 Galactic Centre
en Galactic Center Commonwealth spelling.
2 January 2013 Mark Prigg The mystery of the 'monster' charged particles coming from the centre of our Galaxy (but don't panic, astronomers say they aren't dangerous) https://web.archive.org/web/20130103020632/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2256189/The-mystery-monster-charged-particles-coming-centre-Galaxy-dont-panic-astronomers-say-arent-dangerous.html 'The options were a quasar-like outburst from the black hole at the Galactic Centre, or star-power — the hot winds from young stars, and exploding stars,' said team member Dr Gianni Bernardi of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 'Our observations tell us it's star-power.' In fact, the outflows appear to have been driven by many generations of stars forming and exploding in the Galactic Centre over the last hundred million years.
30 December 2021 Carole Ann Haswell The great beyond: Five of the most exciting pictures of the universe 3. The Galactic Centre / This image looks deeper into space to the centre of our Milky Way Galaxy.
12 May 2022 Joe Pinkstone Ziri Younsi Supermassive black hole at the centre of Milky Way galaxy pictured for first time https://web.archive.org/web/20220512131013/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/12/supermassive-black-hole-centre-milky-way-galaxy-pictured-first/ It was especially challenging because of the haze of stars, dust, and gas in between Earth and the Galactic Centre, as well as the fact that the pattern of light from Sgr A* [Sagittarius A*] changed quickly, over the course of minutes.