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Anticenter shell

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object has subsequently been variously classified by researchers as a spiral arm of the Milky Way in 1972, a nearby
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Simonson, S. Christian, III. (1975). "A New Milky Way Satellite Found in 21-Centimeter Line Observations".
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for the anticenter shell arose from the description in 1975 by Christian Simonson, a
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just outside the Milky Way. Simonson's colleagues coined the name
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The anticenter shell is approximately 55,000 light years (17
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Index

Superbubble
B1950.0
epoch
Right ascension
Declination
ly
pc
Lists of nebulae
anticenter
Milky Way Galaxy
21 cm radiation
galactic coordinates
Gemini
Orion
supershell
superbubble
galactic
tidally-stripped
dwarf galaxy
high-velocity cloud
University of Maryland
astronomer
galaxy
Milky Way
Snickers
kpc
radio observation
Zone of Avoidance
interstellar dust
List of stellar streams

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