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| Galactocentric distance comparison table | |||||
| Subject | is an instance of | has unit | is a kind of | is a component of | has definition |
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| galactic coordinate component | coordinate component | astronomical coordinate | |||
| length | length unit | quantity | |||
| Galactocentric distance | length | length unit | astronomical coordinate | A star's distance from the Galactic center. The Sun's Galactocentric distance is about 27000 light-years. |
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