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has glosseng: In astronomy, Galactocentrism is the theory that our sun is at or near the center of the galaxy. Observations by William Herschel in 1785 indicated that the Milky Way was a separate disk-shaped galaxy with the sun in a central position. Although proved incorrect by Harlow Shapley in 1918, the theory was a major step forward in the development of cosmological models as the speculation of the existence of other galaxies, comparable in size and structure to our own, placed the earth in its proper perspective with respect to the rest of the universe.
lexicalizationeng: Galactocentrism
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