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Does anyone know what our position is in the Universe and/or our Galaxy?

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  • 2 decades ago
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    Well dear....we aren't centrally placed in our milky way galaxy.....our solar system lies at a distance of about 30,000 light years from its centre....and we don't know the extremities of our universe yet hence our position with respect to the universe can't be measured..

  • 2 decades ago

    Sol lies in the outer rim of the Milky Way Galaxy, in the Orion Arm if I'm not mistaken. It's hard to say where in the universe we are, since we don't know the entire scope of the universe at this time.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    we are only yet another set of stars, planets, moons, rock, airborne dirt and dirt, molecules and darkish remember which sort a galaxy. The Milky way has no importance compared to different galaxies contained in the universe. we are no longer the centre of the universe, we are no longer the in straight forward words galaxy with planets, we are only part of yet another part of the grand area we call the universe.

  • 2 decades ago

    Well, if the idea that space is infinite is correct, it would not be wrong to say that YOU are at the exact center of the universe, since it could go on forever in all directions.

    It would not be right either, though. Infinity has no reference frame to say where anything is. It just is.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Our galaxy's name is the Milky Way.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    honestly speaking our position in the universe is undetermined as it is with everything ,position is relative and the universe is too large according to me to fix a frame of reference

  • wolf
    Lv 5
    2 decades ago

    we are almost at tip of the Orion arm of the milky way Galaxy

    Source(s): did my own resaerch
  • 2 decades ago

    Get this link and surf around. You'll get your answer.

    http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/galaxy.html

  • April
    Lv 6
    2 decades ago

    yES, tHERE ARE SCIENTIFICLY NAMED AREAS IN THE UNIVERSE, AS WE KNOW IT. yOU'LL NEED A COURSE IN ASTRONOMY TO UNDERSTAND....

  • 2 decades ago

    Not exactly sublime.

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