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Solar neighborhood  

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  • That part of the Milky Way galaxy lying near the Sun. In fact there is no definition of the exact radius of this region. It is referred to the immediate solar neighborhood (within about 5 pc), the solar neighborhood (within about 25 pc), and the extended solar neighborhood (within a few hundred pc). (en)

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  • Solar neighbourhood (en)

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http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1509

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