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One thousand parsecs.

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  • The result of this galactic mashup: the birth of hundreds of thousands of stars in a kiloparsec-spanning ring near the core.
  • Distance is still not very well known, but it is around one kiloparsec 3,200 light years, with the lowest limits about 0.75 to 0.8 kiloparsecs.
  • By the time an electron has traveled a whole kiloparsec, it isn't so 'high energy' any more.
  • The artist's concept also includes a new spiral arm, called the "Far-3 kiloparsec arm," discovered via a radio-telescope survey of gas in the Milky Way.
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