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What is a description that refers to the position location of our sun in relation to our galaxy the milky way.?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    "The Sun is currently traveling through the Local Interstellar Cloud (near to the G-cloud) in the Local Bubble zone, within the inner rim of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way galaxy. Of the 50 nearest stellar systems within 17 light-years from Earth (the closest being a red dwarf named Proxima Centauri at approximately 4.2 light-years away), the Sun ranks fourth in mass. The Sun orbits the center of the Milky Way at a distance of approximately 24,000–26,000 light-years from the galactic center, completing one clockwise orbit, as viewed from the galactic north pole, in about 225–250 million years."

    A quote from here :

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Arcturus is concept to be a seize, because of the fact its ideal action is desperate at an attitude to the final flow of site visitors in the Milky way. however the solar is amazingly typical in its action, and by the type is approximately one hundred lightyears off from the efficient airplane--a trivial volume given the dimensions of the galaxy. The solar orbits the middle of the Milky way Galaxy as quickly as each and every 220 million years. there's no longer something to point it got here from yet another galaxy, siuch as we see with A-%stars, or the megastar flow in galactic north.

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