... Subject: Why isn't the ecliptic in the same plane as the Milky Way galactic disk?. ... the planets orbit the sun in the same plane as the sun orbits the galactic center ...
... Miguel . What would life be like near a galactic center? In a word, dangerous. ... A direct collision with a star would be exceedingly rare, but you don't need to ... It would be likely, near the galactic center, for such passages to send hundreds or ...
... We can define the galactic longitude of, say, a star (or a planet of clones) as its ... Astronomers actually use a galactic coordinate system today to map out objects; it's ...