Unified Astronomy Thesaurus

Last uploaded: June 20, 2024
Preferred Name

Solar neighborhood

Synonyms

Solar neighbourhood

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://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1509

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Solar neighbourhood

broader

http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1056

http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1528

contributor

http://editor.vocabs.ands.org.au/user/AAS_Frey.Katie_Admin

http://editor.vocabs.ands.org.au/user/AAS_Frey.Katie

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).

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2020-11-19T15:53:36.874Z

2021-08-24T15:22:43.877Z

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Solar neighbourhood

Solar neighborhood

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