... The orange dot in the above false-color drawing represents the current location of the Sun among local gas clouds in the spiral Milky Way Galaxy . ... The purple filaments near the Sun are gas shells resulting from star formation 4 million years ago in the Scorpius-Centaurus Association, located to the Sun's lower left. ... Publications with keywords: Sun - Solar Neighborhood - interstellar medium - Milky Way . Publications with words: Sun - Solar Neighborhood - interstellar medium - Milky Way . ...