Preferred Name

Solar neighborhood

Definitions

That part of the Milky Way galaxy lying near the Sun. In fact there is no definition of the exact radius of this region. It is referred to the immediate solar neighborhood (within about 5 pc), the solar neighborhood (within about 25 pc), and the extended solar neighborhood (within a few hundred pc).

ID

http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/uat#solar-neighborhood

broader

http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/uat#milky-way-galaxy-physics

http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/uat#solar-system

definition

That part of the Milky Way galaxy lying near the Sun. In fact there is no definition of the exact radius of this region. It is referred to the immediate solar neighborhood (within about 5 pc), the solar neighborhood (within about 25 pc), and the extended solar neighborhood (within a few hundred pc).

exactMatch

http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1509

prefLabel

Solar neighborhood

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