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How do space telescopes point themselves?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Galactic Coordinate System

The origin of this coordinate system is at the center of the Milky Way. If you look at that oval, for example, and you put a dot in the very, very center of it, that's where the black hole is. And so we pick it relative to the like the basically the main axis of the Milkyway.

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