Solar neighborhood

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The Solar neighborhood is the region of space in the Milky Way galaxy surrounding the Sun, encompassing nearby stars and interstellar matter within a few hundred light-years.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Solar neighborhood canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf astronomical region
region of the Milky Way
belongsToGalacticComponent thin disk
centeredOn Sun
contains Gould Belt
Local Arm
Local Bubble
Local Interstellar Cloud
Sun
interstellar dust
interstellar gas
interstellar medium
local stellar associations
nearby brown dwarfs
nearby giant stars
nearby main-sequence stars
nearby red dwarfs
nearby stars
nearby white dwarfs
hasApproximateRadius a few hundred light-years
about 100 parsecs
hasCharacteristic contains many low-mass stars
contains older field stars
contains young stellar associations
dominated by red dwarfs
relatively low interstellar gas density
hasMetallicityDistribution similar to thin disk stars
hasNearbyStructure Hyades cluster vicinity
Pleiades moving group vicinity
Sco-Cen OB association vicinity
hasStellarVelocityDispersion tens of kilometers per second
locatedIn Milky Way
Orion Arm
partOf Galactic disk
linked to: Milky Way
referenceFrameFor local standard of rest
relevantFor searches for exoplanets
searches for potentially habitable stars
studiedBy astrometry
photometric surveys
radial velocity surveys
surveyedBy Gaia mission
linked to: Gaia observatory

Hipparcos mission
linked to: Hipparcos satellite

ground-based parallax programs
usedFor calibration of the cosmic distance scale
studies of stellar kinematics
studies of stellar populations
studies of the initial mass function
studies of the local star formation history
tests of Galactic structure models

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Pedile isIn Solar neighborhood
subject linked to: Pedile (Hyad)
Gould Belt relativeTo Solar neighborhood