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Q:At what distance, position and angle are we from the galactic plane?A:We're actually sitting in the galactic plane, orbiting at a radius of about 8 kiloparsecs, or 26 light years from the center of the galaxy.For a nice drawing of the Milky Way galaxy and our position in it, see this website: http://www.ras.ucalgary.ca/CGPS/where/plan/ And we have some additional illustrations at http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/illustrations/milkyWay.html The Chandra web pages have a helpful discussion of galactic coordinates: http://chandra.harvard.edu/xray_astro/navigation.html and beautiful images of the galactic center, in X-ray and other wavelengths: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/gcenter/more.html |
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