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anticentro
1) The direction of the sky opposite to that of the galactic center.
2) The point in the galactic plane that lies directly opposite the galactic center. Here we gaze toward the edge of the Galactic disk. The nearest bright star to the anticenter is El Nath, in the constellation Taurus.
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