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Spiral arms aren't static objects, they are a denser region of the galaxy as stars pass through them. There's also a small speed variance between different syst
by fivesigma 10y ago
Spiral arms aren't static objects, they are a denser region of the galaxy as stars pass through them. There's also a small speed variance between different systems, so on average it all evens out. Then there's dark matter which adds an additional factor to the orbital speed.