Baade's Window Comparison Table

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Baade's Window comparison table

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equatorial sky area quantity A fixed region on the sky defined using equatorial coordinates

Baade's Window equatorial sky area celestial sphere A clearing in the dust clouds of the constellation Sagittarius where astronomers can view stars in the Galactic bulge. Baade's window lies four degrees south of the Galactic center, so an observer's line of sight passes within 1800 light-years of the Milky Way's center.

Subject	is an instance of	is part of	is a kind of	has definition
equatorial sky area			quantity	A fixed region on the sky defined using equatorial coordinates
Baade's Window	equatorial sky area	celestial sphere		A clearing in the dust clouds of the constellation Sagittarius where astronomers can view stars in the Galactic bulge. Baade's window lies four degrees south of the Galactic center, so an observer's line of sight passes within 1800 light-years of the Milky Way's center.

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