The SNR IC 443 is located in the Galactic anticenter direction ( l = 189.1?), close to the Galactic plane ( b = + 3.0?).
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The anticenter shell is approximately 55, 000 light years ( 17 radio observation due to its location near the Zone of Avoidance, the regions of the sky obscured by interstellar dust along the galactic equator.
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Christian was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and studied astronomy and physics at Boston University, from which she graduated with a PhD in 1979 with a thesis on " Investigations of distant field stars and clusters in the galactic anticenter ".
