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superfish
on Oct 2, 2019
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Where Is the Sun Located in the Milky Way?
> But where is it vertically in the cake? Right in the center of that frosting layer, or off by a bit up or down?
Did the author answer these questions? How far above the center of the cake is 55 light years?
nobrains
on Oct 2, 2019
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He mentions that the height is 2,000 light years, so the deviation from the center is 55 ÷ 1000 = 5.5% (+- 0.16%)
mirimir
on Oct 3, 2019
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I had no clue that the Sun's orbit looked like that. Bobbing up and down relative to the galactic plane. More or less in a sine wave.
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Did the author answer these questions? How far above the center of the cake is 55 light years?