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minus-squareLiz@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·3 days agoIt’s my understanding that the specific direction on this relative motion graphic is just made-up, but it does do a good job of reminding people that we’re orbiting the galactic center.
minus-squareStellarExtract@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoI’d love to know what the actual direction currently looks like though
minus-squareFossifoo [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoYou mean like this? https://i0.wp.com/iaspoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/movement-of-earth-within-milky-way-galaxy-1.png
minus-squareadr1an@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·3 days agoAFAIK, the problem is that we don’t even know with certsinty the shape of the universe. Let alone find out anything outside our own cosmos…
minus-squarescala@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 days agohttps://vger.to/lemmy.ml/comment/23296878
It’s my understanding that the specific direction on this relative motion graphic is just made-up, but it does do a good job of reminding people that we’re orbiting the galactic center.
I’d love to know what the actual direction currently looks like though
You mean like this? https://i0.wp.com/iaspoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/movement-of-earth-within-milky-way-galaxy-1.png
AFAIK, the problem is that we don’t even know with certsinty the shape of the universe. Let alone find out anything outside our own cosmos…
https://vger.to/lemmy.ml/comment/23296878