Definition of "kiloparsec" []

• A unit of distance equal to one thousand parsecs (noun)

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• "Distance is still not very well known, but it is around one kiloparsec 3,200 light years, with the lowest limits about 0.75 to 0.8 kiloparsecs."
• "The result of this galactic mashup: the birth of hundreds of thousands of stars in a kiloparsec-spanning ring near the core."
• "The artist's concept also includes a new spiral arm, called the "Far-3 kiloparsec arm," discovered via a radio-telescope survey of gas in the Milky Way."