Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Solar System orbits Milky Way at sharp angle

A short while back I posted about the moon not orbiting around the earth in the same plane as the solar system.

Well it turns out this scientist thinks our solar system orbits our Milky Way galaxy at a 60-90 degree angle to the plane of the Milky Way's rotation.

blurbs from the article:

"our solar system is pitched at a sharp angle and not oriented parallel to the plane of the Milky Way as previously thought."

"An analogy is a bullet hurtling through the air with its nose turned toward the ground."

It seems things out there aren't nearly as orderly as we might expect.

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