EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP â The dogs â and people â who visit the dog park on Swift Avenue will have more to enjoy, thanks to a group of third-graders and a $500 grant from the Egg Harbor Township Education Foundation. Read more
Galactic Disk-A disk of matter, about 30 kiloparsec s (kpc) in diameter and 2 kiloparsec s thick, containing most of the stars and interstellar matter in the Milky Way ... galactic disk Flattened region of gas and dust that bisects the galactic halo in a spiral galaxy. This is the region of active star formation.
The Galactic Center is the term used to denote the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Although it is not proven, there is much speculation of a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. The Galactic center is estimated to be between 7.6 and 8.7 kiloparsecs away, or 25,000 to 28,000 light years. Interestingly, the earth is about the same distance away from the edge of the Milky Way as it is to the center.