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... Galactic center region . Since stellar velocities are not easily influenced by anything except gravity , they therefore provide the most direct measure of the mass distribution in the Galactic center . The observed properties of our ...
... Galactic center region . Since stellar velocities are not easily influenced by anything except gravity , they therefore provide the most direct measure of the mass distribution in the Galactic center . The observed properties of our ...
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galactic disk is readily attributed to the rotation of the protogalactic cloud that collapsed to form the disk of ... GALACTIC NUCLEUS The center of the Milky Way galaxy contains a fundamentally different beast from that found elsewhere ...
galactic disk is readily attributed to the rotation of the protogalactic cloud that collapsed to form the disk of ... GALACTIC NUCLEUS The center of the Milky Way galaxy contains a fundamentally different beast from that found elsewhere ...
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... galactic shapes is correlated with other galactic properties ( Table III ) . The loosely wound spirals ( the Sc's ) and the irregu- lars contain the greatest number of young blue stars and the greatest fraction of gas that forms young ...
... galactic shapes is correlated with other galactic properties ( Table III ) . The loosely wound spirals ( the Sc's ) and the irregu- lars contain the greatest number of young blue stars and the greatest fraction of gas that forms young ...
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Guide to Using the Encyclopedia ix Atomic Physics | 339 |
Approximations and Expansions 1 Atomic Spectrometry | 357 |
Archaeological Geology 31 Atomic Spectroscopy | 381 |
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