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Title: "Astronomers find the edge of the Milky Way" First sentence in the article: "Astronomers have located the edge of the Milky Way’s star-forming disk for
by rob74 6mo ago
Title: "Astronomers find the edge of the Milky Way"
First sentence in the article: "Astronomers have located the edge of the Milky Way’s star-forming disk for the first time"
Wouldn't you expect someone from a publication called "Sky & Telescope" to know that these two are different things?!
Also, in diagrams showing our galaxy, I would greatly appreciate a "you are here" marker which points out the location of our solar system...
- thaumasiotes 6mo ago> Also, in diagrams showing our galaxy, I would greatly appreciate a "you are here" marker which points out the location of our solar system... What would that mean? Try locating France on this map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:T_and_O_map_Guntherus_Ziner_1472.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:T_and_O_map_Guntherus_Zin...
- rob74 6mo agoOk, I would be happy with an approximate location too. On that map, I would place France in Europa right beside the mediterraneum, pretty much on the Occidens side (although not at the very edge).
- thaumasiotes 6mo agoWell, to ask you again, what do you think "an approximate location" would mean? How would the labeling be done? It's easy enough to take the rob74 position of "I'm going to choose an arbitrary point on this artist's conception and paste a 'you are here' sticker over it", but what would be the point?
- wvbdmp 6mo agoWell, we’re clearly not in the center, for one thing.
- kridsdale1 6mo agoIt’s right where the V (Latin U) symbol is.
- matt-attack 6mo agoDo we not know where we are in the galaxy? I would have thought that was well established.