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Galactic Center
The Galactic Center is the rotational center, the barycenter, of the Milky Way galaxy.
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“A fast-moving star is as good as a spaceship,” says astronomer Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback. A new computer simulation shows stellar hitchhiking might be the best way to settle a galaxy. If a civilization reaches the galactic center “it explodes with settlements, [...] at the fastest rate possible.”