Gould Belt

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Gould Belt

astronomy

Also known as: Gould’s Belt

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Milky Way Galaxy
Variations in the stellar density
…phenomenon referred to as “the Gould Belt,” a tilt of the nearby bright stars in this direction with respect to the galactic plane, which was first noted by the English astronomer John Herschel in 1847. Such anomalous behaviour is true only for the immediate neighbourhood of the Sun; faint B…
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…phenomenon referred to as “the Gould Belt,” a tilt of the nearby bright stars in this direction with respect to the galactic plane, which was first noted by the English astronomer John Herschel in 1847. Such anomalous behaviour is true only for the immediate neighbourhood of the Sun; faint B…
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