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Galactic poles

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the poles of the galactic circle.
- Herschel.

See also: Galactic



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Using the Sliding Anglo-Australian Telescope on Siding Spring Mountain in Australia, the survey examines objects in two large wedges of sky at the north and south galactic poles.
A Dark View of the Universe by COWEN, RON / Science News
Szalay of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and his collaborators initially determined the positions of galaxies along a long, narrow line of sight -- a pencil beam -- in the direction of the Milky Way's north and south galactic poles.
Probing a universe of bubbles and voids by Peterson, Ivars / Science News
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