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- Subclass of
- astronomical object
- Part of
- galaxy
- Image
- NGC 3923 Elliptical Shell Galaxy.jpg
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- Galactic halos
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Encyclopedic overview
A galactic halo is an extended, roughly spherical component of a galaxy which extends beyond the main, visible component. Several distinct components of a galaxy comprise its halo:
the stellar halo
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “galactic halo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.