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 rotational center of the Milky Way. The estimations for its location range from 7.6 to 8.7 kiloparsecs (about 25â000 to 28â000 lightyears), in the direction of the constellations Sagittarius, Ophiuchus, and Scorpius where the Milky Way appears brightest.