galactic coordinate system

celestial coordinate system in spherical coordinates, with the Sun as its center
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galactic coordinate system
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galactic coordinate system

Summary

galactic coordinate system ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (169 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • galactic coordinate system's image is recorded as Artist's impression of the Milky Way (updated - annotated).jpg[2].
  • galactic coordinate system's subclass of is recorded as astronomical coordinate system[3].
  • galactic coordinate system's Commons category is recorded as Galactic coordinate system[4].
  • galactic coordinate system's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cyv6[5].
  • galactic coordinate system's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[6].
  • galactic coordinate system's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/galactic-coordinate[7].
  • galactic coordinate system's BabelNet ID is recorded as 03258467n[8].
  • galactic coordinate system's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as galaktiske_koordinater[9].
  • galactic coordinate system's Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID is recorded as 566[10].
  • galactic coordinate system's schematic is recorded as Galactic coordinates.JPG[11].
  • galactic coordinate system's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 133835443[12].
  • galactic coordinate system's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 203169[13].

Why It Matters

galactic coordinate system ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (169 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  4. [5] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  7. [8] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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