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galactic halo

(halo)
(spherical region around a galaxy with gas, dark matter, etc.)

A galactic halo is a region around the visible part (bulk of the stars) of a galaxy, comprising of less visible parts of the same gravitationally-bound structure. The galactic halo includes:

(Note that in many phrases, the word galactic is taken to imply our galaxy, Milky Way, but the phrase galactic halo has been applied to galaxies in general.)


(galaxies,dark matter,plasma)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_halo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_halo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter_halo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_corona
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/223658/galactic-halo
https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/science.php
http://burro.case.edu/Academics/Astr222/Notes/2023_0130.pdf

Referenced by pages:
ARTEMIS
astronomical quantities
corona
dark matter filament
DECaLS
Fermi bubbles
galactic disk
GD-1
globular cluster (GC)
Gould's Belt
H3 Survey (H3)
halo orbit
high-velocity cloud (HVC)
high-velocity star
Hydrogen Accretion in Local Galaxies Survey (HALOGAS)
interstellar astrophysics
MACHO Project
Magellanic Stream
Milky Way (MW)
Orphan stream
Panoramic Imaging Survey of Centaurus and Sculptor (PISCeS)
Polar-ring Catalog (PRC)
quenched galaxy
shell galaxy
Smith Cloud
stellar halo
stellar overdensity
stellar stream
supershell

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